> and in features like line numbering, modes for showing (non-printable) special characters or whitespace and option parsing for said features. I remember a pa

> and in features like line numbering, modes for showing (non-printable) special characters or whitespace and option parsing for said features. I remember a page somewhere saying plan9 people where very much against making cat be a generic tool for all those use cases, and it should do what it says in the name: concatenate files.