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Re: add --skip to head and tail
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: add --skip to head and tail |
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17 Dec 2003 15:58:57 -0800 |
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Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:
> head and tail should have options to skip forward and backward
> respectively first, before doing their thing.
These proposed options would be of limited utility, since you can
already do that in another way. "tail --skip=5 -n 10" would be
equivalent to "tail -n 15 | head -n 10", and "head --skip=5 -n 10"
would be equivalent to "tail -n +6 | head -n 10".