comparison scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 134:5a1eacb9dded draft

updated a2.o on suggestions from anonno
author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:39:16 +0000
parents
children
comparison
equal deleted inserted replaced
133:8d724e11032c 134:5a1eacb9dded
1 #!/bin/sh
2
3 #This script is necessary because head from GNU textutils 2.0 (on Borg's
4 # machine) doesn't implement negative arguments for the -n and -c options.
5
6 #FIXME: The emulation here fails if there's a newline at the end:
7 #sed '$s/.$//'
8
9 rev | tac | dd bs=1 skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | tac | rev