comparison scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 139:85efc932b07f draft

Merge branch 'master' of git://git1.somerandomnick.ano
author pragmo <pragmo@pragmo.ano>
date Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:49:23 +0000
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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