bash tool - line not available

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Aug 24 15:25:11 UTC 2006


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Nicholas Adrian Suppiah wrote:
> Does anyone know why the "line" tool is not available with FC5?

It's removed in the util-linux specfile as a deprecated command, along
with some others.

> Is there a replacement tool being used?

head -n1 works fine.  You can create a script or alias to give you a
line command if you like:

    alias line="head -n1 $@"

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