head 📜

Displays file content from beginning.

Print first N lines of a file -n

head -n 5 ~/.bashrc

Print all but N last lines -n -N

tail -n -3 ~/.bashrc

Print first N bytes of a file -c

head -c 1k ~/.bashrc

Prints first 1k of file binary content.

Print all but N last bytes -c -N

tail -c -1k ~/.bashrc

About Living in the Shell
Obsessed with doing things in the shell, I’ve decided to share my daily struggles on living in the shell as terse but informative posts.