#!/usr/bin/env bash # vim:ts=4:sts=4:sw=4:et # # Author: Hari Sekhon # Date: 2020-07-25 19:03:48 +0100 (Sat, 25 Jul 2020) # # https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools # # License: see accompanying Hari Sekhon LICENSE file # # If you're using my code you're welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn and optionally send me feedback to help steer this or other code I publish # # https://www.linkedin.com/in/HariSekhon # set -euo pipefail [ -n "${DEBUG:-}" ] && set -x srcdir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)" # shellcheck disable=SC1090,SC1091 . "$srcdir/lib/utils.sh" # shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2154 usage_description=" Head and Tail input files or standard input For a better version written in Python see the adjacent DevOps Python tools repo: https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Python-tools For something as simple as just the first and last line, you could instead do: sed -n '1p;\$p' " # used by usage() in lib/utils.sh # shellcheck disable=SC2034 usage_args="[-n ] [ ...] --num-lines Number of lines to print from each file or stdin (default: 10)" help_usage "$@" files=() until [ $# -lt 1 ]; do case "$1" in -n|--num) num_lines="${2:-}" shift || : ;; *) files+=("$1") ;; esac shift || : done num_lines="${num_lines:-10}" docsep(){ if [ "${#files[@]}" -gt 1 ]; then echo '======' >&2 fi } if [ "${#files[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then for filename in "${files[@]}"; do if [ "$(wc -l "$filename" | awk '{print $1}')" -lt $((2*num_lines)) ]; then cat "$filename" continue fi head -n "$num_lines" "$filename" tail -n "$num_lines" "$filename" docsep done else output="$(cat)" if [ "$(wc -l <<< "$output" | awk '{print $1}')" -lt $((2*num_lines)) ]; then echo "$output" else head -n "$num_lines" <<< "$output" tail -n "$num_lines" <<< "$output" fi fi