User Commands                                             HEAD(1)



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  stan-
     dard 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
     Report head bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
     GNU             coreutils             home             page:
     <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
     General        help        using        GNU        software:
     <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
     Report        head        translation        bugs         to
     <http://translationproject.org/team/>




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COPYRIGHT
     Copyright c 2010 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  redistri-
     bute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
     law.

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 coreutils head invocation

     should give you access to the complete manual.







































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