head - output the first part of files

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

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