On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Paul Jarc wrote: >Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "tail -n COUNT" already uses the sign of the count for something >> different, so it would be confusing if "head" used the sign in the way >> that you suggest. > >It might be a better parallel if "head -n -1" (or some other spelling) >wrote all but the last N lines of the input.
That is what I thought first, then some how I changed my mind. > > >paul > _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
