Michael Forney <mforney@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Indeed, that's what motivated the patch. The version of tail on my > system does not support the legacy options. I suspected as much. Which system are you using? > Another possibility is `sed 2q`, which works for any number. It's even > mentioned in the rationale section as a way to simulate head(1). Yes, "sed 2q" should also work fine on all versions of sed I have ever used. > > tail +3 == tail -n +3 == sed '1,2d' This may also be written as "sed -n '3,$p'" if you want to just print the lines you want rather than deleting the lines you do not want. > I think this script is only necessary to rebuild the .depend file, > which is not usually necessary, but you make a good point. I didn't > realize that some implementations did not support the -n option. The > change you suggested sounds good to me. Most of those systems that do not support POSIX head and tail are very ancient... I just no longer recall which ones they were... It has been a long time since I have seen one, but I would rather not see it break if there is a way to be compatible for all other systems. Be safe, stay healthy, -- Mark _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
