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Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

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Message #47 received at 34488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>,
 Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>,
 34488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for
 sort|head error messages
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:52:02 -0800

On 17/02/19 13:00, Paul Eggert wrote:
> You make good points about nohup. Still, it's too bad that we'd have to add a 
> new command for such a trivial thing.
> 
> Perhaps it'd be better to overload 'env' instead, as you proposed earlier. After 
> all, env is already being used for another little environmental thing (namely 
> changing directories), and if we find future needs for yet other little things 
> (running with a different umask, say) we can put them under 'env' as well.

+1

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