Name
head
Synopsis
head [options
] [files
]
Prints the first few lines of one or more
files
(default is 10).
Options
-
-
n
Print the first
n
lines of the file.-
-
n n
Print the first
n
lines of the file.
Example
Display the first 20 lines of phone_list
:
$ head -20 phone_list
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