S6-HEAD(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Bestie, this is s6-head(1) from the General Commands Manual — it prints the first lines of input files. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

s6-head [-S] [-1..9 | -n lines | -c chars] file...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so s6-head acts as the generic head[1] utility. That's the whole vibe: first lines, no cap. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💅 Standard options 💅

• -n number — Prints the first number lines from file to stdout. 📄

🦋 Non-standard options 🦋

• -S — Safe mode. s6-head stops reading its input files right after getting all the lines it needs. The rest of the stream can then be handled by other utilities without any data loss. 🛟
• -1..9 — Equivalent to -n 1 .. -n 9. So yes, the tiny number flags are little shortcuts, iykyk. 🔢
• -c chars — Cuts after chars characters instead of lines lines. 🧚

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 111 — Temporary error. 😭
• 100 — Permanent error, such as a misuse. 💀
• 127 — Unable to execute program - not found. 🔍
• 126 — Unable to execute program - other reason. 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

The whole friend group: s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1).

Footnote [1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/head.html.

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-head.html.

🌈 STANDARDS 🌈

s6-head is suitable as a head[1] program conforming to . 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

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🎀 Cute sign-off: source/version is Debian, date is April 18, 2022, and the page is S6-HEAD(1). Bye bestie, go read some first lines! 🫶