NAME

head − display first few lines of files

SYNOPSIS

head [ −n ] [ file . . . ]

DESCRIPTION

head copies the first n lines of each file to the standard output.  If no file is given, head copies lines from the standard input.  The default value of n is 10 lines. 

When more than one file is specified, the start of each file will look like:

==>file<==

Thus, a common way to display a set of short files, identifying each one, is:

head −9999 file1 file2 . . .

SEE ALSO

cat(1), more(1), pg(1), tail(1)

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