Section 1 · User commands

head.1

Package: coreutils-common

HEAD

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO

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=[−]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.

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.