Man1 - head.1

head - output the first part of files

head [/OPTION/]… [/FILE/]…

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. Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

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Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/head
or available locally via: info ’(coreutils) head invocation’