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head.awk

Generated on Tue Dec 05 17:39:05 Eastern Standard Time 2006 from head.awk

# Program   : HEAD.AWK
# Purpose   : Pass on the first N lines of a file
# Date      : 19 January 2006
# Author    : Bob Jonkman

# Usage:    : gawk -f head.awk [-v LINES=100] inputfile > outputfile

# Variables : LINES - Number of lines to return


BEGIN   {   if (!LINES)
                LINES=100
}


(FNR <= LINES)   { print
}

(FNR > LINES)   { nextfile
}

# EOF:  HEAD.AWK
   

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