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updated a2.o on suggestions from anonno
author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:39:16 +0000
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--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/head_-c_-1	Wed Sep 08 19:39:16 2010 +0000
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+#This script is necessary because head from GNU textutils 2.0 (on Borg's
+# machine) doesn't implement negative arguments for the -n and -c options.
+
+#FIXME: The emulation here fails if there's a newline at the end:
+#sed '$s/.$//'
+
+rev | tac | dd bs=1 skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | tac | rev