head (command)

head -10 /dev/urandom | sha512sum | cut -b 1-30

head -c 10 /path/to/file

curl -Is https://yourdomain.com/ | head -1

du -hs /var/lib/* | sort --human-numeric-sort -rk1 | head -10

Related terms

• tail
• fallocate

See also

• cat, tac, more, less, tail, mtail, echo, stdin, tr, column, paste, truncate, logrotate, xzcat pv, progress, sort, ncat, virt-cat, awk, join, col, fold, tee, sponge, nfs-cat, journalctl, ccat, icat, EOF, lolcat