HEAD(1)

🎀 HEAD(1) 🎀

okay bestie, so we're in the General Commands Manual and this little icon is called head — yes the name is literal, it prints the head of stuff. slay.

✨ NAME ✨

head — print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

And this next bit is lowkey important so I'm saying it twice, just like the original does: mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. fr fr. like if --bytes needs a number, -c needs one too. iykyk 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

head [OPTION]... [FILE]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the whole vibe is: print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. that's it. that's the main character energy.

Things get a little more decorated when you hand it more than one FILE — then it precedes each one with a header giving the file name, so you know which output came from where 🎀

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, it reads standard input. stdin bestie, we love her.

And again, because it's that serious: mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c, --bytes <[-]NUM> — print the first NUM bytes of each file; with a leading -, print all but the last NUM bytes of each file. yes, the minus goes in the value, not in front of the flag. she's quirky like that ✨
• -n, --lines <[-]NUM> — print the first NUM lines instead of the first 10; with a leading -, print all but the last NUM lines of each file. iconic, honestly 🔥
• -q, --quiet — never print headers giving file names. shhh. no names, no drama 🙈
• -v, --verbose — always print headers giving file names. names ON. loud and proud 👑
• -z, --zero-terminated — line delimiter is NUL, not newline. NUL-terminated era 🌈
• -h, --help — Print help. we love a helpful queen 🫶
• -V, --version — Print version. the lore 💀
• [FILE] [default: -] — the file(s) you're feeding her. leave it off and it defaults to -, which means standard input. so chill 🍓

⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

okay that's the whole page bestie, go print some heads 💜

signing off with the official stamp: v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-17. no cap, that's literally what the footer said. 🧚‍♀️