Manual: gnuhead

HEAD(1)							User Commands						     HEAD(1)

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.

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SEE ALSO
       tail(1)

       Full documentation 
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) head invocation'

       Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
       Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

GNU coreutils 9.7					January 2026						     HEAD(1)