On 18 Aug 2002 09:38:23 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> Me too. Doesn't even fork an extra process.
>
> | head is more portable, read is not available in some shells like tcsh/csh.
>
> Speaking as one who predates "head" I'd had differed on this:-) (Well, at the
> least started on systems that predated "head").
>
> True, [t]csh users can't use read. But Bourne shell users can, and should.
Continuing this useless discussion. If you don't want your script to fork,
use perl and <> to read a line, or use $< in tcsh, or use a portable
solution that is not language specific like using head/sed. Some unices
have utility called line that does just what "head -1" does.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Sat Aug 17 2002 - 18:56:05 BST