Head

Head is a command for viewing the first few lines of a file, or of some output of another program. If you run a command that gives many lines of output, but you're only interested in the very top, then head is exactly what you're looking for.

= Usage = head [option] file

= Examples = ls -lt | head

This has head reading from stdin and showing the 10 newest entries in a directory.

= Provided by = Most (all?) Linux distributions incorporate this from the GNU Coreutils: and use its man page

= See also =
 * tail
 * cat
 * tac