HEAD

HEAD

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

NAME

head - output the first part of files

SYNOPSIS

head [''OPTION''?... [''FILE''?...

DESCRIPTION

Print 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.

-c, --bytes=SIZE

print first SIZE bytes

-n, --lines=NUMBER

print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10

-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

SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg. If -VALUE is used as first OPTION, read -c VALUE when one of multipliers bkm follows concatenated, else read -n VALUE.

AUTHOR

Written by David !MacKenzie?.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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 head

should give you access to the complete manual.