The ht command combines the head and tail programs.

There are currently two versions, ht-ugly and ht-argparse. They should work the same. Copy whichever you like to ht and use ht.

NAME

ht - (headtail) output the beginning and ending of files

SYNOPSIS

ht [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Print the beginning and ending of each file.
Prints '...' for omitted lines.
Defaults to first 10 and last 10 lines.
Standard input may be specified by - argument.
If no file is specified, uses standard input.

Prints header lines if more than one file.
    Prints a blank line between output of multiple files.

OPTIONS

-n, --lines=n
    Specify the number of lines from beginning and end of file to print.

--head-lines=n
    Specify the number of lines from beginning of file to print.

--tail-lines=n
    Specify the number of lines from end of file to print.

-v, --verbose
    Print headers.

-q, --quiet, --silent
    Do not print headers.

--help
    Show this and quit.

EXAMPLES

ls -ltr ~ | ht -20
    Shows first 20 and last 20 lines of output of previous command.

ht --head-lines=1 --tail-lines=3 *.py
    Shows first line and last three lines of each *.py file.