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.TH HEAD "1" "September 2011" "GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
head \- output the first part of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B head
[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIFILE\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fI[\-]K\fR
print the first K bytes of each file;
with the leading `\-', print all but the last
K bytes of each file
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR=\fI[\-]K\fR
print the first K lines instead of the first 10;
with the leading `\-', print all but the last
K lines of each file
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR
never print headers giving file names
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
always print headers giving file names
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
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.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report head bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
.br
Report head translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B head
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B head
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils \(aqhead invocation\(aq
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.