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d3v1150m471c was here
author d3v1150m471c <d3v1150m471c@d3v11m4ch1n3>
date Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:20:37 -0500
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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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