--- layout: page author: Agostino Monti category-page: advanced category-title: Advanced commands tags: head tail text file title: head and tail previous-page: pages/cmd/advanced/grep.html next-page: pages/cmd/advanced/nl.html --- The head command reads the first few lines of any text given to it as an input and writes them to standard output.
If more than one input file is provided, head will return the first ten lines from each file, precede each set of lines by the name of the file and separate each set of lines by one vertical space.
head [flags] [file1] [file2] ...
The tail command is similar to the head command except that it reads the final lines in files rather than the first lines.
tail [flags] [file1] [file2] ...

Flags