Need utils: head,yes,& nroff (-man) for SysV2 (CCI 2.21or2.22)

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Fri Jul 1 05:38:42 AEST 1988


In article <366 at theceg.UUCP> lkb at theceg.UUCP (Lawrence Keith Blische) writes:
>	head [-count] [file ...]

But that's a violation of the command syntax standard (if count > 9).
Thus my version omits the -.  It does make it hard to deal with files
whose names start with a digit, and is imperfect in other ways.

Actually I always type the direct "sed" command myself:
	program | sed 23q



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