view scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 427:281a1f5f61ba draft

Merge branch 'master' of git://git1.somerandomnick.ano Conflicts: doc/www.anonet2.org/public_pod/index.pod
author sevil <sevil@sevilnatas.ano>
date Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:00:44 -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