/bin/head should be moved to /usr/bin

[tito_puentes]

Patch replaces all instances of head -n# to sed #q.

One less binary in root.

[tito_puentes]

use sed instead of head

[bdubbs@…]

As an administrator, I expect head to be available at the command line, even is /usr is not mounted.

[DJ Lucas]

​http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#BINESSENTIALUSERCOMMANDBINARIES

Bruce, you sure about that? I'd personally like to have both head and tail available if I couldn't mount /usr, but the FHS leaves it up to us. Do we go through any extra trouble in the book to put head in /bin? OTOH, there is nothing that says we cannot put it into /bin either. As the OP stated, it would be one less thing to move around, but I'd really like to finish the LSB style scripts at some point and provide Dan's initd-tools for LSB compliance. tito_puentes seems to be interested in the boot scripts, maybe he could put focus there, as I am still time constrained?

[bdubbs@…]

Sure about what? That I'd like to have head and tail in /bin? Yes. Are they required by LHS, no. We do the move as the last instruction in coreutils. I'm thinking that we should add tail to that list for the administrator's convenience.

mv -v /usr/bin/{head,sleep,nice} /bin

Note: If you don't have /usr as a separate partition, all this discussion is moot.

[DJ Lucas]

Replying to bdubbs@…:

Sure about what?

The snap closure. ;-) As for the rest I agree.