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Re: Extend cat to have headers like head/tail
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Extend cat to have headers like head/tail |
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Sun, 12 May 2013 17:36:09 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Erik Auerswald wrote:
> Eric Lavarde wrote:
> > to check multiple files I often tend to use 'cat *somefiles*' but it's
> > all concatenated and difficult to read, so I switch back to 'head
> > -nSOMETHINGBIG *somefiles*' but it's not optimal and I might miss lines
> > if a file is bigger than expected.
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> Try head -n-0.
I like it! I did not know about that possibility before. Thank you
for sharing it. I would have suggested it if I had known about it.
Bob