view scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 350:c9b4cd6ac74e draft

Merge branch 'master' of git://1.3.9.1
author brainbox <brainbox@yourmomshouse>
date Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:11:22 -0500
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