Adding <bug-findutils@gnu.org>. On 09/26/2015 04:43 PM, Richard Russon wrote: > I'd like to add an option to both head and tail, > to allow them to work with NUL-terminated lines of text > -z, --zero-terminated > > Thus allowing: > > find dir -type f -print0 | head -z -n 10 | xargs -0 command
While this makes sense in head(1) and tail(1), wouldn't it also make sense in find(1) to define a limit for the number of entries returned, thus avoiding the 2 pipes at all? find dir -type f -limit 10 -exec command '{}' + ___________________^^^^^^^^^ We already have other limiting options like -maxdepth, so a new option to stop processing after a total number of output entries may be worth thinking about. Have a nice day, Berny