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* ITP: buthead -- Copy all but the first few lines
@ 2012-10-09  7:58 Jari Aalto
  2012-10-09 20:07 ` marco atzeri
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jari Aalto @ 2012-10-09  7:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-apps

wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \
    http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/buthead/buthead-1.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \
    http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/buthead/buthead-1.1-1.tar.bz2 \
    http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/buthead/setup.hint

    # To check packaging

    cd buthead
    tar -xf *-src.tar.bz2
    ./*.sh --color --verbose all

Included in Debian:

    http://packages.debian.org/buthead

Jari

[ setup.hint ]

sdesc: "Copy all but the first few lines"
ldesc: "Utility to copy all but the first N lines of stdin to stdout."
category: Utils
requires: cygwin

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* Re: ITP: buthead -- Copy all but the first few lines
  2012-10-09  7:58 ITP: buthead -- Copy all but the first few lines Jari Aalto
@ 2012-10-09 20:07 ` marco atzeri
  2012-10-10  6:29   ` ITP: buthead -- Copy all but the first few lines (CANCEL) Jari Aalto
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: marco atzeri @ 2012-10-09 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-apps

On 10/9/2012 9:58 AM, Jari Aalto wrote:
> wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \
>      http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/buthead/buthead-1.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \
>      http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/buthead/buthead-1.1-1.tar.bz2 \
>      http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/buthead/setup.hint
>
>      # To check packaging
>
>      cd buthead
>      tar -xf *-src.tar.bz2
>      ./*.sh --color --verbose all
>
> Included in Debian:
>
>      http://packages.debian.org/buthead
>
> Jari
>
build fine so GTG

but why we need it ?
The manual itself reports:

BUGS
        Functionality  overlaps  with  tail -n +count
        or  awk '(NR>count)'  or  sed 1,countd


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* Re: ITP: buthead -- Copy all but the first few lines (CANCEL)
  2012-10-09 20:07 ` marco atzeri
@ 2012-10-10  6:29   ` Jari Aalto
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jari Aalto @ 2012-10-10  6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-apps

On 2012-10-09 22:06, marco atzeri wrote:
| build fine so GTG
|
| but why we need it?
|
| BUGS
|        Functionality  overlaps  with  tail -n +count
|        or  awk '(NR>count)'  or  sed 1,countd

Good point. Probably not useful enough as there are alternatives.

Withdrawn,
Jari

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