The attached patch adds a --compact option to pr that creates a 2 line header and 0 line footer instead of the default 5 line header and 5 line footer.
This allows the normal header line with the file name, date and page number without wasting 8 lines per page. The alternatives would be 1) re-implementing pr in awk or another scripting language or 2) running pr with an increased -l and then post-processing the output. I have also stored the patch at http://williambader.com/pat/coreutils-8.23.pat Regards, William
coreutils-8.23.pat
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