HEAD
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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=,[-]NUM/
-
print the first NUM bytes of each file;
with the leading '-', print all but the last
NUM bytes of each file
- -n, --lines=,[-]NUM/
-
print the first NUM lines instead of the first 10;
with the leading '-', print all but the last
NUM lines of each file
- -q, --quiet, --silent
-
never print headers giving file names
- -v, --verbose
-
always print headers giving file names
- -z, --zero-terminated
-
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
NUM 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
GNU coreutils online help: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report head translation bugs to <
http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2017 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
tail(1)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/head>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) head invocationaq
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