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head - output the first part of files
head [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With
more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With
no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard 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.
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 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.
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 coreutils ’head invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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