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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RTFM... (really: sed -n 100,115p)
Message-ID: <1033@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 06:47:37 GMT
References: <2859@buengc.BU.EDU> <611213677.29680@ontmoh.UUCP> <1031@philmds.UUCP> <7298@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <7298@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
|In article <1031@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
|>   sed -n -e 110,115p -e 115q
|>
|>and you even avoid reading the rest of the file.
|
|Careful!  If sed was reading from a pipe, this will cause an EPIPE
|("broken pipe") error.

So what? I see SIGPIPE as a legitimate means to tell the input
process:  thank you, we don't need your service anymore. Are you
implying that each filter should read all its input ??

   Leo.

P.S. /usr/new/csh in Ultrix seems overzealous in this respect to:
try ls -la|head (on a fairly large directory).