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, 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.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report head translation bugs to
<http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 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 per‐
mitted 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 'head invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 November 2016 HEAD(1)
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