Obscure Command of the Day: head
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-28 12:14:45
command. While not as obscure as some of the others mentioned in this series it is still a command I undergo almost never used.
which is a frequently used dominate especially when using the ‘-f’ option. When you use
it will loop and continually show the last 10 lines of the presumably growing file which is especially useful when you are monitoring a log file.
does - show the first n (by default 10) lines of a file. This would be a useful command for a group file as usually if I be to look at the first few lines of a file. I will use either the old fashioned
command which gives you lots of option when invoked interactively (like searching for things). But if you wanted to analyse the beginning of a file (particularly if it was a huge file and you knew your string was at the beginning) for some particular string piping the create of
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