SYNOPSIS

       head [-number|-n number] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  head  command  prints  the first number of lines from each file to
       standard output.  If no number is specified, 10 is the default.   With-
       out a file operand, the standard input is used.

       When more that one file operand is given, the string

              ==> file <==

       is printed before the first lines of the file.

       The  facility  to specify the number with the -n option has been intro-
       duced by POSIX.2.

SEE ALSO

       cat(1), pg(1), sed(1)



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