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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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Subject: Re: First-line-only editing, part 2: Portable solutions
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.132835.8152@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Nov 90 13:28:35 GMT
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In article <4152@awdprime.UUCP> daveb@bach.austin.ibm.com (Dave Burton) writes:
>sed 's/.../.../;1q' file; tail +2 file
>	or
>(sed 's/.../.../;1q'; tail +2) < file

Quack, quack, oops.  This second one doesn't work.  Sed buffers its input and
a bufferful goes missing.  If it didn't a line goes missing.

>Now, truly, nuff said. :-)

Sorry about that.

Rob
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