head shell scripts are silly
Jeff Elman
elman at sdamos.UUCP
Thu Nov 1 12:19:17 AEST 1984
> clearly the thing to do with head(1) is to merge it in with cat(1).
> after all of the hacking berkeley did on cat(1) it still doesn't have
> enough flags; this might help (maybe could merge tail in too).
Naw, that's an awful idea. If we merged 'head' and 'tail' with 'cat'
we'd have to change the name to 'dog' (I mean, only dogs chase their
tails).
And that would be terrible. We'd lose the mnemonic value of 'cat'.
Jeff "I love animals" Elman
Phonetics Lab / U.C. San Diego
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