view scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 437:80d9b4639d11 draft

Hope it floats, the concrete canoe that is...
author sevil <sevil@sevilnatas.ano>
date Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:55:03 +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