view scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 820:111cbe4e01ad draft

Merge branch 'master' of git://1.1.5.1
author Anonymous Coward <nobody@nowhere>
date Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:28:36 -0600
parents 5a1eacb9dded
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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