HEAD(1) User Commands HEAD(1)
NAME
head - output the first part of files
SYNOPSIS
head [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, pre-
cede each with a header giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read stan-
dard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --bytes=[-]N
print the first N bytes of each file; with the leading `-', print all but the last
N bytes of each file
-n, --lines=[-]N
print the first N lines instead of the first 10; with the leading `-', print all
but the last N lines of each file
-q, --quiet, --silent
never print headers giving file names
-v, --verbose
always print headers giving file names
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
N may have a multiplier suffix: b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, GB
1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils AT gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or
later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY,
to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for head is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and head
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info head
should give you access to the complete manual.
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