Bob Proulx <bob-5cAygf9QrE/[email protected]> writes: > 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. >> >> Try head -n-0. > > I like it!
This is non-standard. tail -n+1 is portable. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
