Re: [TRIVIAL] head syntax
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Breaking longstanding command line syntax is about as dumb as
> putting wildcard records in TLD zones.
>
> I seem to recall that the suggested change was said to break things
> on other Unix systems. The correct patch is probably to add an
> "exit" statement to the end of the awk "script."
head -1
sed -e '2,$d'
(the awk solution is at best inefficient).
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