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=[-]K
    print the first K bytes of each file; with the leading '-', print all but the last K bytes of each file

-n, --lines=[-]K
    print the first K lines instead of the first 10; with the leading '-', print all but the last K lines of each file

-q, --quiet, --silent
    never print headers giving file names

-v, --verbose
    always print headers giving file names

--help
    display this help and exit

--version
    output version information and exit

K 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.

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report head translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

Packaged by Cygwin (8.23-4) Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

SEE ALSO
The full documentation for head is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and head programs are properly installed at your site, the command

    info coreutils 'head invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.