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Revert "Merge branch 'master' of git://git1.somerandomnick.ano" This reverts commit 0a745779ffd160ff77dbba359fc077ce8a83270a, reversing changes made to 3ab900bec3253e8ccfdcba56e752da39723ee6fc.
author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:13:25 +0000
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