Re: Not a bug, a wish

[Micah Cowan]

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Samuel GRANJEAUD - IR/IFR137 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I thank you very much for devolopping coreutils that allows quick and
> simple replacement of SQL queries and check. What I would appreciate is
> a tool that does head and tail in one command, giving the top and bottom
> lines from a piped output.

Do you literally mean just the one top line and one bottom line? That
could easily be achieved with the sed command: sed -n '1p;$p'.

If you need more lines, sed can still do it, but requires a bit more
work. You might look to a simple solution in
awk/Perl/your-scripting-language-of-choice.

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HTH,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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