Re: Not a bug, a wish

[Jim Meyering]

Didi <address@hidden> wrote:
> So just to clarify would a invert option do the job. So basically if
> you specify head -i or  --invert you would print everything except the
> head.
>
> so if you want to strip out the first line of a file you could do:
> head -n1 -i

"tail -n +2" already does that.

> Same of course for tail. A little bit like grep -v. What to the

"head -n -1" prints what "tail -1" omits.

> maintainers say? (Jim???) Would something like this be committed? This
> is in my eyes a more "do one thing wright" approach than one big
> program to stip out head and tail.

When there are already easy (or even slightly involved) ways to perform
a task with existing programs, it's hard to argue for a new program.