On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:01 PM Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: ... > 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!