7 Jul
2021
7 Jul
'21
7:08 p.m.
On 7/6/21 8:53 PM, Nevin Liber wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 9:12 AM Chet Ramey
<chet.ramey(a)case.edu
<mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
On 7/6/21 1:10 AM, Nevin Liber wrote:
This came up on the list last week. Joy wrote `head' while using 6th
Edition systems at Berkeley; `sed' first appeared in the 7th Edition.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
head isn't needed because we can already do
it with the command line
options for sed. That's the Unix way.
Except, in this case, `head' came first.
While I may be mis-remembering, IIRC that wasn't true in System V Unix from
AT&T (which is where I was first exposed to it).