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2 .TH HEAD "1" "January 2016" "GNU coreutils 8.25" "User Commands"
4 head \- output the first part of files
7 [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
9 .\" Add any additional description here
11 Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output.
12 With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name.
14 With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
16 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
18 \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fI\,[\-]NUM\/\fR
19 print the first NUM bytes of each file;
20 with the leading '\-', print all but the last
21 NUM bytes of each file
23 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR=\fI\,[\-]NUM\/\fR
24 print the first NUM lines instead of the first 10;
25 with the leading '\-', print all but the last
26 NUM lines of each file
28 \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR
29 never print headers giving file names
31 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
32 always print headers giving file names
34 \fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zero\-terminated\fR
35 line delimiter is NUL, not newline
38 display this help and exit
41 output version information and exit
43 NUM may have a multiplier suffix:
44 b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024,
45 GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
47 Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
49 GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
51 Report head translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
53 Copyright \(co 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
54 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
56 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
57 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
62 Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/head>
64 or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) head invocation\(aq