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Manpage of HEAD
HEAD
Section: FSF (1)
Updated: March 2001
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NAME
head - output the first part of files
SYNOPSIS
head
[OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print 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.
- -c, --bytes=SIZE
-
print first SIZE bytes
- -n, --lines=NUMBER
-
print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10
- -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
SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg.
If -VALUE is used as first OPTION, read -c VALUE when one of
multipliers bkm follows concatenated, else read -n VALUE.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-textutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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 head
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
- NAME
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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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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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