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- From: decwrl!nsc!nsc!nsta!instable.ether!amos (Amos Shapir)
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 87 16:54:53 -0200
- Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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- >From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
- >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")
-
- Try 'dd bs=n skip=1' - actually, what you need is a 'line' modifier to
- dd, in addition to chars, blocks and k.
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