Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:7839 comp.sys.tahoe:31 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!philmds!leo From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.tahoe Subject: Re: Need utils: head,yes,& nroff (-man) for SysV2 (CCI 2.21or2.22) Keywords: dwb, tail, Power 6, BSD Message-ID: <536@philmds.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 20:25:25 GMT References: <6007@hqda-ai.ARPA> <8171@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (L.J.M. de Wit) Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven Lines: 34 In article <8171@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes: >In article <6007@hqda-ai.ARPA> jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Hiser) writes: >>head: the opposite of 'tail'. > >if [ $# -eq 0 ] >then n=10 >else case $1 in > [0-9]*) n=$1; shift;; > *) n=10;; > esac >fi >exec sed -e ${n}q $* I like that. He (Jay) also writes: >yes: pipe the output to some other program that expects 'y' or 'n'. #!/bin/sh # yes - be repetitively affirmative case $# in 0) set y;; esac exec sed ' : again p b again' <