head behaviour

[Rob Warnock]

Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
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No, I think you covered most of it quite well [including the bit
about "grep -m" not working properly in the case of pipes, sockets,
special files, etc.], thanks.

Yes, I know that "grep(1)" only promises that "-m" works "If the input
is standard  input  from a regular file", but IMHO we would all benefit
from having an option for "grep" (and "head") that would force using
"read(fd,&c,1)" when the user really, really wanted it (them) to.


-Rob

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