Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] head: optionally indicate underrun of set limit

[Pádraig Brady]

On 23/11/10 16:24, Stefan Tomanek wrote:
> Dies schrieb Stefan Tomanek (address@hidden):
> 
>> 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.