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- From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
- Date: 12 Jan 87 15:18:10 GMT
- Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments
-
- > From: hoptoad!gnu@lll-crg.arpa (John Gilmore)
- > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 86 02:57:15 PST
- >
- > ... Tail should be in the mandatory set of commands.
-
- I know that tail is in BSD. Is it a Berkeley product? There's one thing
- about it I don't like. When you type "tail +10c" you get all characters
- starting with the tenth.
-
- Now, that's un-Unixican. Characters start at 0, and perhaps blocks and
- lines should too. As it is, if I want a shell command or expression
- in the argument, I usually have to add 1 to it to make it work.
-
- I'd like to see a program that does what tail does, except that if
- you say "tail +n" it skips the first n units. You could call it
- something else--maybe "trail." And how about a "head" with the same
- syntax as tail/trail? ("head xx file; tail xx file" = "cat file")
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- Col. G. L. Sicherman
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 20
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