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Subject: Re: tail in 1003.2 Commands
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Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 22:18:09 EST
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From: decwrl!nsc!nsc!nsta!instable.ether!amos (Amos Shapir)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 87 16:54:53 -0200
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.

>From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
>I'd like to see a program that does what tail does, except that if
>you say "tail +n" it skips the first n units.  You could call it
>something else--maybe "trail."  And how about a "head" with the same
>syntax as tail/trail?  ("head xx file; tail xx file" = "cat file")

Try 'dd bs=n skip=1' - actually, what you need is a 'line' modifier to
dd, in addition to chars, blocks and k.
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