bug#47243: pr lacks -p

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-07-28 09:06, Stan Marsh wrote:
> The point is that -f is already taken; it is a synonym for -F.

That's a bug in GNU 'pr'. -f is supposed to mean "act like -F but also 
pause before the first page if standard output is a terminal". See 
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/pr.html#tag_20_95_04>.
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