[plug] my Linux is too young! Need older "tail" and "head"

[Cameron Patrick]

Craig Ringer wrote:

| >Another example (from MatLab) is where the installer seeks info regarding
| >the libc version with among other things...
| >ver='/lib/libc.so.6 | head -1 | sed -e blah, blah, blah'
| 
| That's incredibly cool - I had no idea shared libraries could be 
| executable. It seems that most library authors didn't either, as most of 
| the others I quickly looked at coredumped instantly :-(

It doesn't work for me, my libc.so.6 isn't chmod'ed to be executable.

Aha... If I take a copy and chmod it, it prints out neat info which is
presumably what you were referring to.

Cameron.