What head -n does
Show the first 5 lines of a file.
head-n5log.txt
head— command — first lines of a file-n— flag — how many lines5— argument: a file, a folder, or textlog.txt— argument: 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
Run it yourself
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Where you use it
Explain other commands
Written by Mikhail Kuzmitskii