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What head -n does

Show the first 5 lines of a file.

head-n5log.txt
  • headcommand — first lines of a file
  • -nflag — how many lines
  • 5argument: a file, a folder, or text
  • log.txtargument: a file, a folder, or text

What it does when you run it

$ head -n 5 log.txt
ok start
error: disk full
ok done
error: retry
ok finished

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Written by Mikhail Kuzmitskii