HEADSection: User Commands (1)Updated: October 2004 |
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=[-]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, k 1024, m 1024*1024.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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 head
should give you access to the complete manual.