.TH HEAD UCB 2/24/79 UCB .SH NAME head \- give first few lines of a stream .SH SYNOPSIS .B head [ .BR \- count ] [ file ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION This filter gives the first .I count lines of each of the specified files, or of the standard input. If .I count is omitted it defaults to 10. .SH SEE\ ALSO tail(1) .SH AUTHOR Bill Joy