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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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: <8171@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 27 Jun 88 03:55:28 GMT
References: <6007@hqda-ai.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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 $*