On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: >> >> I think cut is exactly the kind of job that awk (or sed) can be good >> for. It seems crazy not to use an existing tool that implements all >> the functionality, that can be nicely bundled in a a script. >> > > To be honest, I feel the same way about head(1) -- why bother > maintaining C when the tool is obviously a subset of another tool?
head(1) is utterly and completely idiotic. sed 11q is superior in every possible way.
