From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pineapple.bbn.com ([128.11.0.16]) by archone.tamu.edu with SMTP id <18942>; Mon, 16 Sep 1991 17:22:14 -0500 Received: from LITCHI.BBN.COM by pineapple.bbn.com id ; Mon, 16 Sep 91 18:21:45 -0400 From: Rich Salz Received: by litchi.bbn.com id ; Mon, 16 Sep 91 18:21:39 EDT Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1991 17:21:39 -0500 Message-Id: <9109162221.AA01621@litchi.bbn.com> To: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@archone.tamu.edu Subject: Re: is there any clever way to do 'read' in rc scripts? Hmm, I agree that `{sed 1q} seems to read one too many lines. This works okay for me, don't know about elsewhere: `{head -1}