[TUHS] [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view

[Nevin Liber]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 9:12 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu> wrote:

> On 7/6/21 1:10 AM, Nevin Liber wrote:
>
> > 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).
-- 
 Nevin ":-)" Liber  <mailto:nevin at eviloverlord.com>  +1-847-691-1404
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