non gnuwin32 alternative to head?

[taripo]

What methods are there for me to display the first n lines of a file, it seems there is a bug in piping to gnuwin32 head and gnuwin32 sed viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7480 (I can use them without pipe as then they won't run into the bug, but i'd like commands that I can pipe to)

So i'm interested in alternatives (ones where I can pipe input to them)

So let's say I have a file

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C:\ff\ff>for /L %f in (1,1,500) do @echo zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz >>testfile

And I want to display the first 3 lines of it and use pipe

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type testfile | head -n 3

I want some alternatives to gnuwin32 head, and not a gnuwin32 alternative.

[Squashman]

I want some alternatives to gnuwin32 head, and not a gnuwin32 alternative.

Well that is a head scratcher.

[batchcc]

I want some alternatives to gnuwin32 head, and not a gnuwin32 alternative.

Well that is a head scratcher.

Ha great pun. Well I better head off now.

[aGerman]

Just write your own batch tool if you don't want to use a 3rd party. E.g.

head.bat

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:: Syntax:
:: command|head.bat [number]

@echo off &setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('find /n /v ""') do (
  if "%~1" neq "" for /f "delims=[]" %%j in ("%%i") do if %%j gtr %~1 exit /b
  set "line=%%i"
  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
  echo(!line:*]=!
  endlocal
)

Code for testing

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:: !%<>|&()^?*"

:: "!%<>|&()^?*

@echo off &setlocal
type "%~f0"|head.bat 3
pause

Output:

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:: !%<>|&()^?*"

:: "!%<>|&()^?*
Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

Steffen

[penpen]

it seems there is a bug in piping to gnuwin32 head and gnuwin32 sed viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7480

There's no bug, see http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7480#p49689.


penpen

[foxidrive]

I want some alternatives to gnuwin32 head, and not a gnuwin32 alternative.

Well that is a head scratcher.

Ha great pun.

I chuckled too.