Re: {bb} qub.gif... ??

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:53, Ronan McGlue wrote:
> philip once again thanks for gettin back...
> 
> I can see a slight <dammit just hit my send macro by accident :S > 
> discrepency in this as my distro Slamd ( which your right in thinking is 
> just a 64bit version of slackware ) uses head -n $ instead of head -$....
> 
> when i use head -n i get "green" so i does work... ill try moddin the 
> source manually and see how that affects it.

If your version of "head" refuses to use the "-N" form (where N
is an integer), you can either install an older alternate version,
cook up a little script to translate the arguments or do a manual
replacement. Something of the form:

  find . -name "*.sh" -exec egrep -iH "head -[1-9]" {} \;

can be useful, in order to identify the required files (kudos to
Kimberly). You'll probably need to do the same thing for the
"tail" command too, as they are normally a matched pair.

> Im in GMT timezone so i wont be in work until +12 hrs from now (20:00 GMT)
> 
> Ill report back either way

Yep, I'm in GMT (well BST ATM) too, but I keep "student hours" :)

Cheers, Phil.



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