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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.50.1.
.TH HEAD "1" "February 2026" "GNU coreutils 9.10" "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
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#head-c'\fB\-c, \-\-bytes=\,[\-]NUM\fP\X'tty: link'\/\fR
print the first NUM bytes of each file;
with the leading '\-', print all but the last NUM bytes of each file
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#head-n'\fB\-n, \-\-lines=\,[\-]NUM\fP\X'tty: link'\/\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
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#head-q'\fB\-q, \-\-quiet, \-\-silent\fP\X'tty: link'
never print headers giving file names
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#head-v'\fB\-v, \-\-verbose\fP\X'tty: link'
always print headers giving file names
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#head-z'\fB\-z, \-\-zero\-terminated\fP\X'tty: link'
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/head#head--help'\fB\-\-help\fP\X'tty: link'
display this help and exit
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/head#head--version'\fB\-\-version\fP\X'tty: link'
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, R, Q.
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"
Report bugs to: bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
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.br
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.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2026 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
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