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• How to Get the First N Bytes of a File
  April 14, 2020 in Uncategorized

  There comes a time when you just need to take a little off the top of a file, see what you are working with. That is where knowing how to use a utility like <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/head.1.html">head</a> can help. Just running:

  $ head filename.txt

  Will get you

  Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output.

  http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/head.1.html

  But what if that file does not have nice lines? Large SQL dump files come to mind. head has an answer. Use the -c flag to print the beginning bytes of a file instead of lines. Change the command above to: