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head-original(1)
display first few lines of files
From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.
With the coreutil package (with the extra set), see head(1) instead.
NAME
head - display first few lines of files
SYNOPSIS
head [ -n ] [ file...]
DESCRIPTION
head copies the first n lines of each file to the standard output. If no file is given, head copies lines from the standard input. The default value of n is 10 lines. When more than one file is specified, the start of each file will look like:
==>file<== Thus, a common way to display a set of short files, identifying each one, is: head -9999 file1 file2 ...
SEE ALSO
cat(1), more(1), pg(1), tail(1)