Limit number of compiler error messages

[cal]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 09:50:41 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> As Don said, if there are any useless error messages it is a 
> bug, and needs to be reported at:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/
>
> This said, if you're on a non-Windows platform, you can use the 
> following:
>
> <my build command> 2>&1 | head -n <number of lines you want to 
> see>
>
> Where <my build command> is your dmd/rdmd/build script command. 
> There's probably something similar you could use on Windows, I 
> don't really know though.

They are probably all valid errors, I am porting a rather large C 
file to D and it takes a few seconds (perhaps 10 seconds) for the 
compiler to finish listing all the things I haven't fixed up yet, 
makes the process a bit more tedious is all. No biggy, thought 
there might be a switch I missed.

Interestingly, I don't seem able to redirect the compiler output 
on Windows, or even pipe it.