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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.48.5.
.TH HEAD "1" "April 2022" "GNU coreutils 9.1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
head \- output the first part of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B head
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output.
With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name.
.PP
With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fI\,[\-]NUM\/\fR
print the first NUM bytes of each file;
with the leading '\-', print all but the last
NUM bytes of each file
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR=\fI\,[\-]NUM\/\fR
print the first NUM lines instead of the first 10;
with the leading '\-', print all but the last
NUM lines of each file
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR
never print headers giving file names
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
always print headers giving file names
.TP
\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zero\-terminated\fR
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
NUM may have a multiplier suffix:
b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024,
GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBtail\fP(1)
.PP
.br
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/head>
.br
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) head invocation\(aq