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HEAD (1)

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head - display first few lines of files

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head [-number|-n number] [file ...]

The head command prints the first number of lines from each file to standard output. If no number is specified, 10 is the default. Without a file operand, the standard input is used.

When more that one file operand is given, the string

==> file <==

is printed before the first lines of the file.

The facility to specify the number with the -n option has been introduced by POSIX.2.

cat(1), pg(1), sed(1)