# [PATCH] git-am: head -1 is obsolete and doesn't work on some new systems

1 messages from 2008-06-17 to 2008-06-17. Participants: Alejandro Mery.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14000

## Alejandro Mery, 2008-06-17 11:43

Subject: [PATCH] git-am: head -1 is obsolete and doesn't work on some new systems
Message-ID: <4857A37D.8040004@geeks.cl>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4857A37D.8040004%40geeks.cl

```
head -<n> was deprecated by POSIX, and as modern versions of coreutils
package don't support it at least one exports _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
it's fails on some systems.

head -n<n> is portable, but sed <n>q is even more.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Mery <amery@geeks.cl>
---
 git-am.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index b48096e..2c517ed 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ do
 	else
 	    action=yes
 	fi
-	FIRSTLINE=$(head -1 "$dotest/final-commit")
+	FIRSTLINE=$(sed 1q "$dotest/final-commit")
 
 	if test $action = skip
 	then
--
1.5.4.3 

```