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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
>> sed 1q is faster, as it stops parsing after the first line (the same as
>> 'head
>> -n 1' does, but in a more portable fashion).

If your sed is GNU, and you are doing this for a small file, the startup
cost of it may dwarf such gain ;-)

> Except that I wanted all but the _last_ line though.
>
> I didn't think about using sed. Perhaps I could have used something like
>
>    sed -n -e '$q' -e 'p'

You surely meant "sed -e '$d'", right?

> The grep works though.

Indeed.