#!/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