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| author | Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-04-12 20:48:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-04-12 20:48:55 +0000 |
| commit | 69e6d7b75e96c406d072cb83ffc9b26fbf1a86fb (patch) | |
| tree | 54038c9ac32a45f8741dcc23fb9a8ffc0e15ff89 /usr.bin/head | |
| parent | 51048477bcc79bcc8753121ec91c150648df3d1b (diff) | |
| parent | 8818042ff2ecd155adb5c248a22de2dbe5d9c2a9 (diff) | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/head')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/head/head.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/head/head.1 b/usr.bin/head/head.1 index 0e16477aae28..dd12485201ed 100644 --- a/usr.bin/head/head.1 +++ b/usr.bin/head/head.1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)head.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dd March 16, 2013 .Dt HEAD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ where is the name of the file. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +To display the first 500 lines of the file +.Ar foo : +.Pp +.Dl $ head -n 500 foo +.Pp +.Nm +can be used in conjunction with +.Xr tail 1 +in the following way to, for example, display only line 500 from the file +.Ar foo : +.Pp +.Dl $ head -n 500 foo | tail -n 1 .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr tail 1 .Sh HISTORY |