Didi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So just to clarify would a invert option do the job. So basically if > you specify head -i or --invert you would print everything except the > head. > > so if you want to strip out the first line of a file you could do: > head -n1 -i
"tail -n +2" already does that. > Same of course for tail. A little bit like grep -v. What to the "head -n -1" prints what "tail -1" omits. > maintainers say? (Jim???) Would something like this be committed? This > is in my eyes a more "do one thing wright" approach than one big > program to stip out head and tail. When there are already easy (or even slightly involved) ways to perform a task with existing programs, it's hard to argue for a new program. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
