Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > The only way I can imagine scripts braking due to head returning > non-zero upon premature EOF are scripts that consider every non-zero > exit fatal, but don't know many lines their input is. How many can > they be?
well, head also returns !=0 e.g. if the file doesn't exist. Therefore, if a script relies on this, it would fail in the future if head's behaviour was changed. Have a nice day, Berny
