view scripts/head_-c_-1 @ 887:dedfe7b6784a draft

welcome /efnet :-)
author Nick <nick@somerandomnick.ano>
date Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:55:54 +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