Jaik99

 Profile Answers by Jaik99 

• May 10th, 2010

 

head filename  # by default fetches first 10 lines

head -3 filename  #Fetches first 3 lines

srnayak17

 Profile Answers by srnayak17 

• May 20th, 2010

 

It would be always safe to use 'sed command'

sed -n '1-10p' filename > outputfile

sunil

• Jul 27th, 2011

 

command as follows
HEAD -10 filename

and for lower records

TAIL -10 filename