HEAD
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: June 2012
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NAME
head - output the first part of filesSYNOPSIS
head [OPTION]... [FILE]...DESCRIPTION
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=[-]K
- print the first K bytes of each file; with the leading `-', print all but the last K bytes of each file
- -n, --lines=[-]K
- print the first K lines instead of the first 10; with the leading `-', print all but the last K 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
K 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 head bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.orgGNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report head translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 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 coreutils aqhead invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.
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