NAME

head − display first few lines of files

SYNOPSIS

head [ −n ] [ filename...]

AVAILABILITY

SUNWcsu

DESCRIPTION

head copies the first n lines of each filename to the standard output.  If no filename 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:

==> filename <==

Thus, a common way to display a set of short files, identifying each one, is:

example% head −9999 filename1 filename2 ...

SEE ALSO

cat(1), more(1), pg(1), tail(1)

SunOS 5.1/SPARC  —  Last change: 14 Sep 1992