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

[John W Baxter]

At 6:21 -0400 4/18/01, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>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.

And indeed, /usr/bin/head on my MacOS X machine has always* been the
head(1) command.  I haven't tried installing Perl 5.6.1.

*for small values of "always":  starting March 24, 2001.  ;-)

  --John

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