POSIX says (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/head.html#tag_20_57_18) about the 'head' utility:
"There is no -c option (as there is in tail) because it is not historical practice and because other utilities in this volume of POSIX.1-2017 provide similar functionality." I'm just wondering what these other utilities might be. On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Maximilian Pichler <maxim.pich...@gmail.com> wrote: > dd bs=1 count=1234567 will copy 1234567 bytes and then stop, but it's slow. > > I can't seem to think of a faster command that also works in the > presence of short reads and blocking. There is ghead -c from coreutils > in ports, but this should be possible in base, no? > > Max
