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Merge commit '1e518fea98a664c11525bb198fb9fa877a5286c6'
author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:24:42 +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 '$s/.$//'

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