trainee-head
About
trainee-head is a from scratch developed program which outputs the first 10 lines of a file you specify. Seen like this it's an imitation of the original head command line command.
Parameters
| Parameter | Usage |
|---|---|
| -n | Define how many lines should be printed. |
Usage Examples
In the following you'll see a quick example of how to use the head command. Here is what our text file looks like:
in.txt:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
To print the first 10 lines of in.txt run ./head.linux-amd64 < in.txt
The output is:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
If you want to choose more than one file run ./head.linux-amd64 in.txt in2.txt in3.txt ...
To print e.g the first 5 lines use the -n parameter ./head.linux-amd64 -n 5 in.txt