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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}