HEAD
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report head bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU 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 'head invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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