On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Tim McDaniel <t...@panix.com> wrote: > I don't have the time to experiment at the moment...
Likewise, but it seems likely some existing utilities like "line" or "head -n1" might do the job. E.g. foo=$(line < file) foo=$(head -n1 file) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple