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From: Miroslav Karlovsky <emka_ffm <at> web.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: head -n
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:55:02 +0200

Hallo gnu.org,

head-n produce sometimes to much empty lines s.d.
One limiting for highest 2 lines (maximum) are forcing.

Thank you.
Meny regards, miroo

html2text -ascii $i | head -n$zZ >> ZZ-line.txt

System:
AMD Phenom II X4 925 2,8GHz, RAM 8GB
Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04
Kernel 2.8.38-8 generic x86_64
Gnome: 2.32.1

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Miroslav Karlovsky <emka_ffm <at> web.de>
Cc: 8993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8993: head -n
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:35:55 -0600

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tag 8993 needinfo
thanks

On 07/04/2011 12:55 AM, Miroslav Karlovsky wrote:
> Hallo gnu.org,
> 
> head-n produce sometimes to much empty lines s.d.
> One limiting for highest 2 lines (maximum) are forcing.
> 
> Thank you.
> Meny regards, miroo
> 
> html2text -ascii $i | head -n$zZ >> ZZ-line.txt

Thanks for the report, but I'm not quite sure what you are complaining
about.  We need more details as to what you are trying to do, and why
what happened didn't match what you wanted.  For example, what is the
value of $zZ in the instance of the 'head' run that didn't behave the
way you expected?  Is this part of a bigger script?  Could the bug be
elsewhere in your script, rather than in the behavior of head?

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Miroslav Karlovsky <emka_ffm <at> web.de>
Cc: 8993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8993: head -n
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:56:47 -0600

Miroslav Karlovsky wrote:
> head-n produce sometimes to much empty lines s.d.
> One limiting for highest 2 lines (maximum) are forcing.
> 
> html2text -ascii $i | head -n$zZ >> ZZ-line.txt

In bug#8994 now merged with 8993:
> My replenishment to head -n resolf to minimum of the lines are 8. This
> make few empty newlines but not lose any Files !

Are you still having a problem with the head command?  A few weeks
have passed without further report.  The above information does not
show us any problems.

Bob

Message #20 received at 8993-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Miroslav Karlovsky <emka_ffm <at> web.de>
Cc: 8993-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8993: head -n
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:17:30 -0600

Miroslav Karlovsky wrote:
> Hallo Bob,
> sorry I mean without Pipes and head -xy less Garbage-collection and more
> speedy. Just with Lines or more better and to look for words
> (incl./excl.line). Same the Unix.
> Thanks, miroo

That's great then.  In that case I will go ahead and close the ticket
to keep things tidy.  Please feel free to add more input to the ticket.

Bob

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