head

Text Processing

Display the first lines of a file

Options & Flags

Available options for this command

-n NUM

Print first NUM lines (default 10)

-c NUM

Print first NUM bytes

Examples

Common usage examples

Display first 10 lines

head file.txt

Display first 20 lines

head -n 20 file.txt

Display all except last 5 lines

head -n -5 file.txt

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