I was using the command
cat $FILE | head -1 | wc -w to get the number of words (columns) in a line of a file This worked until the number of words got over a certain number (I haven't checked to find out where, but it looks like about 10,000) the command cat $FILE | tail -1 | wc -w worked fine for over 250,000 words in a line. If there is such a limitation in head, could this be added to the man/info for head?? Info tail includes the following comment: "GNU `tail' can output any amount of data..." There is nothing similar stated for head. Thanks Brent Wood _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
