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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need utils: head,yes,& nroff (-man) for SysV2 (CCI 2.21or2.22)
Message-ID: <8195@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 30 Jun 88 19:38:42 GMT
References: <8171@brl-smoke.ARPA> <366@theceg.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <366@theceg.UUCP> lkb@theceg.UUCP (Lawrence Keith Blische) writes:
>	head [-count] [file ...]

But that's a violation of the command syntax standard (if count > 9).
Thus my version omits the -.  It does make it hard to deal with files
whose names start with a digit, and is imperfect in other ways.

Actually I always type the direct "sed" command myself:
	program | sed 23q