On 22/11/10 22:21, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Perhaps something like: > > (head --no-header -n1 file.* | head -n1; tail --no-header -n+2 file.* | sort) > > I.E. add the --no-header option to suppress the ==> file name <== annotations > which would allow using `head` and `tail` in general for this.
Of course this being useful, it's already supported: (head -q -n1 file.* | head -n1; tail -q -n+2 file.* | sort) cheers, Pádraig
