NAME head - Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to stdout. SYNOPSIS head [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to stdout. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read stdin. --bytes=[-]n print the first n bytes of each file' with the leading '-', print all but the last n bytes of each file --lines=[-]n print the first n lines instead of the first 10; with the leading '-', print all but the last n lines of each file -q, --quiet, --silent never print headers giving file names -v, --verbose always print headers giving file names --help print help message EXAMPLES head head - Read next 10 lines from standard in and print to standard out, then close. head file.txt Print first 10 lines of file.txt and print to stdout head -n 32 file.txt Print first 32 lines of file.txt and print to stdout