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Name

head — 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 flags are mandatory for short flags too.

Synopsis

head [-c|--bytes] [-n|--lines] [-q|--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [-z|--zero-terminated] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [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 flags are mandatory for short flags too.

Options

-c,  --bytes <[-]NUM>

print the first NUM bytes of each file; with a 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 a leading '-', print all but the last NUM lines of each file

-q,  --quiet

never print headers giving file names

-v,  --verbose

always print headers giving file names

-z,  --zero-terminated

line delimiter is NUL, not newline

-h,  --help

Print help

-V,  --version

Print version

[FILE]

Version

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

Info

head (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0