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¶
GNU coreutils online help: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report head translation bugs to <
http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2014 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¶
Full documentation at: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/head>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) head invocation'