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The head and tail Commands

There are also 2 commands that are designed to specifically show the start or end of the target file, which can be useful when programming

head

tail

Command filename	head tic-tac-toe.py	tail tic-tac-toe.py
Default 10 lines	First 10 lines	Last 10 lines
-n number of lines	head -n 5 tic-tac-toe.py	tail -n 15 tic-tac-toe.py
-c number of bytes	yes	yes
-q combine files	yes	yes
-f follow file growth	No	Yes – Used to monitor log files
-v verbose	yes	yes

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