On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 03:36:31PM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote: > > this was interesting but I found that I had to NOT use 'head -n -2' but > > rather 'head -n 2' > > You can do 'head -2' or 'head -n2', but not 'head -n -2'. I assumed > it was a typo ;-)
Hurm? -n -2 is perfectly valid. It shows "all but the N first lines": -n, --lines=[-]N print the first N lines instead of the first 10; with the leading `-', print all but the last N lines of each file $ seq 1 5 | xargs -n1 | head -2 1 2 $ seq 1 5 | xargs -n1 | head -n 2 1 2 $ seq 1 5 | xargs -n1 | head -n -2 1 2 3 -Kees -- Kees Cook -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam