>
> head -21 gives the first 21 lines as expected, but
> head -22 gives the first 23 lines, ie. one extra,
> and it seems that values above 21 gives an extra line.
>
> Is this a known bug (or maybe a feature :-)
$ dpkg -l textutils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii textutils 2.0-12 The GNU text file processing utilities.
$ head -21 Timer.cc|wc -l
21
$ head -22 Timer.cc|wc -l
22
$ head -23 Timer.cc|wc -l
23
$ head -24 Timer.cc|wc -l
24
$ head -50 Timer.cc|wc -l
50
$ head -82 Timer.cc|wc -l
82
Perhaps the file you are using head on confuses it??
>
> I know, I have to learn how to make a proper bug report. :-)
make sure you have exim/sendmail/whatever configured to send mail out via your
ISP and then look into reportbug.
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