On 23/11/10 16:24, Stefan Tomanek wrote: > Dies schrieb Stefan Tomanek (stefan.toma...@wertarbyte.de): > >> It is often convinient to detect whether head has in fact printed the >> requested number of lines or if EOF was reached before reaching that >> point. This patch adds the option --indicate-underrun, which makes >> "head" exit with a status of 4 instead of 0 if no more data could be >> read from its input. > > Any thoughts about this change? It's a rather small patch, but would > be quite useful (at least for me). > >
This does seem useful on the face of it. I need to do a little further investigation to see if there are existing ways to achieve the same. cheers, Pádraig.
