cat -v and ls -C considered harmful

[Peter da Silva]

> Why "cat -v" may be bad, even though the functionality it provides is good:
> 
> 	Why not have a command called "vis" (as I believe P of K&P
> 	has suggested) which does the job of "cat -v"?  Nobody's

On our system it's called "type". The only sensible option I can think
of for cat is "-u" for "unbuffered". Why do you think "~%take" in cu
generates a "tee /dev/null" command on the remote system? Sometimes an
unbuffered file copy is useful.
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