head - output the first part of files
To display the first 10 lines default of head command
$ head file.txt
To show the first 6 lines of file.txt
$ head -n 6 file.txt
To displaying specific number of bytes ex.10 bytes
$ head -c 10 example1.txt
To displaying the file name tag
$ head -v file.txt
To display multiple files
$ head file1.txt file2.txt
To display the first 5 lines of each file
$ head -n 5 file1.txt file2.txt
To redirect output to a text file
$ head file.txt > output.txt
To display head with Pipeline
$ ls /etc | head
$ ls -t | head -n 4 | sort
regards,
T.Dhanasekar