view scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 462:4afbc3b99299 draft

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author lex <lex@lynx.ano>
date Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:15:01 +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 '$s/.$//'

rev | tac | dd bs=1 skip=1 status=noxfer 2>/dev/null | tac | rev