/usr/bin/head is an HTTP 'HEAD' request??

[Ken Williams]

Yo,

I was getting some bizarre output when compiling Apache, and it seemed
like the 'head' shell command wasn't working properly.  It turns out
that /usr/bin/head is a Perl script for performing an HTTP 'HEAD'
request, instead of the more standard 'head' program for viewing the
first part of a file.

Doing 'man head' gives the BSD manual page for the 'head' command I
expected.

Can anyone confirm this on their system?

Are there any other Unix systems that do this?  I thought 'head' was
pretty standard as the opposite of 'tail'.


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