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Merge commit 'f33a674a40494a2ea657ce78fe2f6f0a543ab95e'
author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:02:21 +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 '$s/.$//'

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