Re: Proposed new feature: head --show-truncation

[Paul Eggert]

Ed Avis <address@hidden> writes:

> I find this feature useful, and it seems natural -

Isn't easily programmed as a script?  For example, you might have
a script called 'headt' that works like this:

#! /bin/sh

# usage: headt lines file

lines=$1
file=$2

sed $(expr $lines + 1)'{
  s/.*/[[[input was truncated]]]/
  q
}' $file