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Thursday, May 28. 2009

buthead ... or where we learn about the secret art of RTFM

Thinking that this might be worth hacking on tail (because I felt the functionality would be better kept there than in head), I started to have a look at its source. Lo and behold! tail -n +N already does exactly this...

(Obviously a followup to Zack's comment on my previous posting.)

Posted by Adrian von Bidder in Interesting, Tech at 15:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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