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From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager?
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 08:18:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W5Bq4PKLsG5US4fKm7UrPjjui6nqPkqt6s1_6WvdWS=Aw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <902164cd-9c7c-9ce9-d66c-d6321608f526@gmail.com>

Head is easy to emulate: sed 10q

On Nov 9, 2017 12:18 AM, "Will Senn" <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/8/17 5:21 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>>
>> head -20 < filename
>>>
>>
>> Or if you really want to confuse the newbies:
>>
>>     < filename head -20
>>
>> too bad head doesn't exist on v7. I did have to look up the incantation
> in Intro to the Shell by Bourne, that's fascinating stuff and it still
> works on my mac - nuts!
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-09 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-08 18:54 Will Senn
2017-11-08 18:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 19:06 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 19:31   ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-11-08 22:43   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 22:47     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:21       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09  4:38         ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 13:18           ` Dan Cross [this message]
2017-11-09 14:29             ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 20:53           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-10  0:15             ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-10  2:14               ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 19:22 ` Random832
2017-11-08 21:18   ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 21:59     ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:00     ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 22:18       ` Will Senn
2017-11-09  2:01   ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-09  2:16     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-08 19:29 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-08 19:43   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 21:03   ` Mark Green
2017-11-08 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:02 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:11 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-10  5:26   ` Random832
2017-11-10  7:31     ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 20:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 20:28   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 20:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 22:02 Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-08 22:20 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 22:58 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-09 13:33 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-09 16:19 Norman Wilson
2017-11-09 16:48 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-09 17:19   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-09 18:15     ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09 18:26     ` Arthur Krewat

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