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{
"name": "head",
"section": 1,
"title": "copy the first part of files",
"synopsis": ["head [OPTION]... [OPERAND]..."],
"description": "Prints the first part of each file. Supports -n for line count and -c for a byte count (UTF-8 byte-oriented).",
"options": [
{ "flag": "-n, --lines=NUM", "meaning": "Print the first NUM lines (default 10)" },
{ "flag": "-c, --bytes=NUM", "meaning": "Print the first NUM bytes" },
{ "flag": "-NUM", "meaning": "Shorthand for -n NUM (e.g. head -5 file)" }
],
"keywords": ["head", "bare-os", "coreutils"],
"seeAlso": [{ "name": "tail", "section": 1 }],
"examples": [
{
"caption": "first 10 lines",
"code": "head /etc/os-release"
},
{
"caption": "first N lines",
"code": "head -n 50 big.log"
},
{
"caption": "first bytes",
"code": "head -c 80 data.bin"
},
{
"caption": "stdin",
"code": "cat long.txt | head"
}
],
"listCategory": "coreutils"
}