head(1) [sunos man page]

head(1) 							   User Commands							   head(1)

NAME

       head - display first few lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       head [-number | -n number]  [filename...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  head utility copies the first number of lines of each filename to the standard output. If no filename is given, head copies lines from
       the standard input. The default value of number is 10 lines.

       When more than one file is specified, the start of each file will look like:

       ==> filename <==

       Thus, a common way to display a set of short files, identifying each one, is:

       example% head -9999 filename1 filename2 ...

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -n number       The first number lines of each input file will be copied to standard output. The number option-argument must be a  positive
		       decimal integer.

       -number	       The number argument is a positive decimal integer with the same effect as the -n number option.

       If no options are specified, head will act as if -n 10had been specified.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       file	       A path name of an input file. If no file operands are specified, the standard input will be used.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of head when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Writing the first ten lines of all files

       To write the first ten lines of all files (except those with a leading period) in the directory:

       example% head *

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See  environ(5)	for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of head: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
       SAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       >0	An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cat(1), more(1), pg(1), tail(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    1 Feb 1995								   head(1)

split(1)							   User Commands							  split(1)

NAME

       split - split a file into pieces

SYNOPSIS

       split [-linecount | -l linecount]  [-a suffixlength] [ file [name]]

       split [ -b  n | nk | nm] [-a suffixlength] [ file [name]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  split  utility reads file and writes it in linecount-line pieces into a set of output-files. The name of the first output-file is name
       with aa appended, and so on lexicographically, up to zz (a maximum of 676 files). The maximum length of name is 2 characters less than  the
       maximum	filename length allowed by the filesystem. See statvfs(2). If no output name is given, x is used as the default (output-files will
       be called xaa, xab, and so forth).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -linecount | -l linecounNumber of lines in each piece. Defaults to 1000 lines.

       -a suffixlength	       Uses suffixlength letters to form the suffix portion of the filenames of the split file. If -a  is  not	specified,
			       the  default suffix length is 2. If the sum of the name operand and the suffixlength option-argument would create a
			       filename exceeding NAME_MAX bytes, an error will result; split will exit with a diagnostic  message  and  no  files
			       will be created.

       -b n		       Splits a file into pieces n bytes in size.

       -b nk		       Splits a file into pieces n*1024 bytes in size.

       -b nm		       Splits a file into pieces n*1048576 bytes in size.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       file	The path name of the ordinary file to be split. If no input file is given or file is -, the standard input will be used.

       name	The  prefix  to  be used for each of the files resulting from the split operation. If no name argument is given, x will be used as
		the prefix of the output files. The combined length of the basename of prefix and suffixlength cannot exceed NAME_MAX  bytes.  See
		OPTIONS.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of split when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See  environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of split: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
       SAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       >0	An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csplit(1), statvfs(2), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    16 Apr 1999 							  split(1)