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NAME

head - display first lines of a file  

SYNOPSIS

[-n count ] [file ... ]  

DESCRIPTION

This filter displays the first count lines of each of the specified files, or of the standard input if no files are specified. If count is omitted it defaults to 10.

If more than a single file is specified, each file is preceded by a header consisting of the string ``==> XXX <=='' where ``XXX'' is the name of the file.

The utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.  

COMPATIBILITY

The historic command line syntax of is supported by this implementation.  

SEE ALSO

tail(1)  

STANDARDS

The utility conforms to St -p1003.2-92 .  

HISTORY

The utility appeared in BSD 3.0


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
COMPATIBILITY
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
HISTORY

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