Re: Not a bug, a wish

[James Youngman]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Didi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey
>
>  So just to clarify would a invert option do the job. So basically if
>  you specify head -i or  --invert you would print everything except the
>  head.
>
>  so if you want to strip out the first line of a file you could do:
>  head -n1 -i

So instead of these three cases

head -n M
head -n -M
head -M

We'd have six cases to explain?    Ouch :)

James.