Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 8 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