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Re: [TRIVIAL] head syntax



On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:31:35PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > -MUTTVERSION="`mutt -v | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'`"
> > > +MUTTVERSION="`mutt -v | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}'`"
> 
> +MUTTVERSION="`mutt -v | sed 1q | awk '{print $2}'`"

I think, Thomas' solution is the cleanest one.  Why should you want to use two
tools when it can be done by one that you use anyway?

MUTTVERSION="`mutt -v | awk '{print $2; exit}'`"

Robert

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