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head is a program on Unix and Unix-like systems used to display the first few lines of a text file or piped data. The command-syntax is:

head [options] 
By default, head will print the first 10 lines of its input to the standard output. The number of lines printed may be changed with a command line option. The following example shows the first 20 lines of filename:

head -20 filename
This displays the first 5 lines of all files starting with foo:

head -5 foo*

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