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edited Jul 3, 2012 at 21:37

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Didn't try this myself, but how about this:

tar xvf archive.tar | tailhead -n50

Tar outputs a line to STDOUT for each file extracted, then the tailhead command will kill the pipe after 50 lines. Upon the pipe dying, I'd expect the tar to die too.

Didn't try this myself, but how about this:

tar xvf archive.tar | tail -n50

Tar outputs a line to STDOUT for each file extracted, then the tail command will kill the pipe after 50 lines. Upon the pipe dying, I'd expect the tar to die too.

Didn't try this myself, but how about this:

tar xvf archive.tar | head -n50

Tar outputs a line to STDOUT for each file extracted, then the head command will kill the pipe after 50 lines. Upon the pipe dying, I'd expect the tar to die too.

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answered Jul 3, 2012 at 7:52

jippie

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Didn't try this myself, but how about this:

tar xvf archive.tar | tail -n50

Tar outputs a line to STDOUT for each file extracted, then the tail command will kill the pipe after 50 lines. Upon the pipe dying, I'd expect the tar to die too.