Head (Unix)

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The correct title of this article is head. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

head is a program on Unix and Unix-like systems used to display the first few lines of a text file or piped data. The command-syntax is:

head [options] <file_name>

By default, head will print the first 10 lines of its input to the standard output. The number of lines printed may be changed with a command line option. The following example shows the first 20 lines of filename:

head -n 20 filename

This displays the first 5 lines of all files starting with foo:

head -n 5 foo*

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