On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:01 PM Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote:
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> I agree the current behavior is less than useful because:
>
>    * \r\n is common a line end combination
>    * catting such a file without options causes it to display normally
>    * overwriting the first char with $, loses info
>
> I propose to change the upstream coreutils project
> as per the attached, to extend the --show-ends option
> to show \r as ^M when the following character is \n.

+1 patch looks fine. Thanks!

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