A) behind the scenes, if these programs arent already almost the same source, they should be
B) MORE IMPORTANTLY: i think its very useful to have the following features in either head or tail: instead of just tail -n10, which takes the last 10 lines, there should be a way of doing all lines from line 10 to the end. C) i think this really calls for a new application to be created from these 2. Some of its features wrt to cropping the file: first N lines last N lines last lines from line N lines from line N to line M and then give it the best other features from head and tail. EXAMPLE: since its all in 1 file, and now all the features support "follow" you can: take lines 20-30 from a file and then -follow it into another file take all lines after line 5 and then -follow it into that file very very useful.... _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
