At 10:07 PM -0500 4/17/01, 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'.
There's a HEAD that comes with libwww-perl, and that's what
/usr/bin/head is. Chalk it up to the joys of case insensitivity, I
guess. They expect /usr/bin/head to be head(1), since they use it
that way in /etc/weekly.
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