annotate scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 685:39369594be19 draft

splicex manual fix
author resdb <resdb@d3v11-VM.(none)>
date Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:59:08 -0500
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Ignore whitespace changes - Everywhere: Within whitespace: At end of lines:
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1 #!/bin/sh
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3 #This script is necessary because head from GNU textutils 2.0 (on Borg's
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4 # machine) doesn't implement negative arguments for the -n and -c options.
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6 #FIXME: The emulation here fails if there's a newline at the end:
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7 #sed '$s/.$//'
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9 rev | tac | dd bs=1 skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | tac | rev