NAME
head -- print the first lines of a file.
SYNOPSIS
head [-n count] [files ...]
DESCRIPTION
head prints the first count lines from each file. If the -n is not given, the first 10 lines will be printed. If no files are given, the first lines of standard input will be printed.
OPTIONS
head accepts the following options:
ENVIRONMENT
The working of head is not influenced by any environment variables.
BUGS
head has no known bugs.
STANDARDS
This head implementation is compliant with the IEEE Std1003.2-1992 specification, also known as POSIX.2.
This head implementation is compatible with the OpenBSD implementation.
REVISION HISTORY
$Log: head,v $
Revision 1.1.1.1 2001/06/06 08:54:01 sdague
initial import
Revision 1.1 2001/05/14 00:49:39 sdague
added more files
Revision 1.4 1999/03/02 17:37:26 abigail
Added __DIE__ handler. Simplified dying on illegal count arguments.
Revision 1.3 1999/03/02 17:28:39 abigail
Provided support for reading from STDIN if no arguments are given.
Revision 1.2 1999/02/26 18:39:59 abigail
Fixed usage message.
Revision 1.1 1999/02/26 18:38:59 abigail
Initial revisionAUTHOR
The Perl implementation of head was written by Abigail, abigail@fnx.com.
COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
This program is copyright by Abigail 1999.
This program is free and open software. You may use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others to do the same.