Grr, how typical that I'd find the answer right after I post.
It's a case-sensitivity problem. The 'HEAD' file has clobbered the
'head' file. It looks like that happened when I installed LWP.
I guess this needs to be reported to Gisle Aas, or whoever maintains LWP
these days.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote:
>Further very bizarre info-
>
>Another user (Alexandre Siufy) told me that on his system /usr/bin/head
>is indeed the opposite of 'tail'. So it may just be me.
>
>BUT, when I look at the directory /usr/bin/, no 'head' file is there.
>This is inconsistent, since `which head` reports /usr/bin/head, and
>`less /usr/bin/head` shows me the contents of a Perl script. And
>`perl -le 'print -e "/usr/bin/head"'` outputs 1.
>
>But unless I'm going crazy, there's no 'head' in the output below:
>
>[localhost:/] ken% cd /usr/bin
>[localhost:/usr/bin] ken% ls h*
>h2ph* hdiutil* hexdump* hoststat@ htpasswd*
>h2xs* headerdoc2html* host* hpftodit*
>hdid* heap* hostinfo* htdigest*
>[localhost:/usr/bin] ken%
>
>Does this mean my disk is damaged or inconsistent or something?
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote:
>>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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