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bug#47243: pr lacks -p


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#47243: pr lacks -p
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:51:38 -0700
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On 3/18/21 8:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
POSIX requires 'pr -p' to support paging (although it incorrectly stated
that it waits for \r, and is being fixed to wait for \n instead):
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1433

During discussion of the behavior of -p today, the Austin Group was
surprised that coreutils' pr lacks -p altogether.

Given that hardly anybody uses pr any more, I'm surprised that the Austin Group still cares about its options. It's an obsolete utility, and ought to be deprecated.





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