GNU bug report logs - #8102
[head] do not return EXIT_SUCCESS upon premature EOF

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: [head] do not return EXIT_SUCCESS upon premature EOF
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:58:16 +0000

% echo | head -n2 && echo bug
bug

This bit me when writing a line oriented prompter (which would `while
head -n1`).

FYI, this also applies to FreeBSD head.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 263 days ago.

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