Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cat file | ( head --lines=1 ; sed -e x )
>
> I thought that head should consume the first line from the pipe, leaving
> the rest queued for sed to consume, but this does not seem to be the
> case.
head may read an arbitrary amount of data from the pi
I'm a bit confused by the results I'm seeing with a pipeline to a
group. I was trying to parse a text file in such a way as the first n
lines are passed straight through, and then a sed script is applied to
the rest. I thought I could do that with something like this:
cat file | ( head --lin
