Head (Unix)

head
Developer(s)Various open-source and commercial developers
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, MSX-DOS, IBM i
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand
Licensecoreutils: GPLv3

head is a program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to display the beginning of a text file or piped data.

Syntax

The command syntax is: 

head [options] ⟨file_name⟩

By default, head will print the first 10 lines of its input to the standard output.

Option flags

-n ⟨count⟩
--lines=⟨count⟩
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*
Most versions[citation needed] allow omitting n and instead directly specifying the number: -5. GNU head allows negative arguments for the -n option, meaning to print all but the last - argument value counted - lines of each input file.
-c ⟨bytes⟩
--bytes=⟨bytes⟩
Print first x number of bytes.

Other command

Many early versions of Unix and Plan 9 did not have this command, and documentation and books used sed instead: 

sed 5q filename

The example prints every line (implicit) and quits after the fifth.

Equivalently, awk may be used to print the first five lines in a file: 

awk 'NR < 6' filename

However, neither sed nor awk were available in early versions of BSD, which were based on Version 6 Unix, and included head.[1]

Implementations

A head command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2.[2] The head command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Spinellis, Diomidis (2022). "dspinellis/unix-history-man: Version 1.0 web pages (v1.1-web)". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7248228.
  2. ^ MSX-DOS2 Tools User's Manual by ASCII Corporation
  3. ^ IBM. "IBM System i Version 7.2 Programming Qshell" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
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