Head –Tail Commands

TO PRINT THE LINES USING head COMMAND

head -10 File.txt >FileA.txt

This prints the first ten lines to FileA.txt

TO PRINT THE LINES USING tail COMMAND

tail -10 File.txt >FileA.txt

This prints the last ten lines to FileA.txt

Combined use of head and tail is given below.

head -5 Path/FileName_test.txt|tail -1 > Path/FileName_temp.txt

The above command will print the 5th line contained in the FileName_test.txt to FileName_temp.txt