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by **Daniel N** » Tue, 04 Dec 2001 00:11:51

tail print the last part of input.
How do you print the first part, say first 10 lines?

Daniel

by **Michael Heimin** » Tue, 04 Dec 2001 00:28:51

16:11:

Quote:> tail print the last part of input.
> How do you print the first part, say first 10 lines?

'man head'

Michael Heiming

by **Kade** » Tue, 04 Dec 2001 01:44:08

> 16:11:
>> tail print the last part of input.
>> How do you print the first part, say first 10 lines?
> 'man head'

As in, 'remove head(1) from tail(1)'

heh.. Sorry, couldn't resist.

by **Gareth William** » Tue, 04 Dec 2001 01:37:38

> tail print the last part of input.
> How do you print the first part, say first 10 lines?

head -n10 <filename>

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Gareth Williams

by **Daniel N** » Tue, 04 Dec 2001 04:37:00

> 16:11:

> > tail print the last part of input.
> > How do you print the first part, say first 10 lines?
> 'man head'

> Michael Heiming

thanks,

by **b..** » Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:49:16

> tail print the last part of input.
> How do you print the first part, say first 10 lines?

One of the more important parts of a man page is at the bottom:

"See also:"

This is one of the best ways to locate related commands.

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Bill 'shortsig' Hassell, HP Remote Engineering Services

opposite to tail