1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/groff/mdate.sh b/gnu/usr.bin/groff/mdate.sh
index 70a052abc0469..03a4a090685ee 100755
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/groff/mdate.sh
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/groff/mdate.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@
 set -e
 test -r "$1"
 export LC_ALL=C
-changelog_date=$(sed -E -n 's/^([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}).*$/\1/p' "$1" |\
-    head -n 1)
+changelog_date=$(sed -E -n '1s/^([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}).*$/\1/p' "$1")
 echo $(date -j -f %Y-%m-%d +"%e %B %Y" $changelog_date)