Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >> sed 1q is faster, as it stops parsing after the first line (the same as >> 'head >> -n 1' does, but in a more portable fashion). If your sed is GNU, and you are doing this for a small file, the startup cost of it may dwarf such gain ;-) > Except that I wanted all but the _last_ line though. > > I didn't think about using sed. Perhaps I could have used something like > > sed -n -e '$q' -e 'p' You surely meant "sed -e '$d'", right? > The grep works though. Indeed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
