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The first line of a file is head -1. But you probably also want the file name. So something like: for file in glob do first_line="$(head -1 "$file")" printf "%s: %s\n" "$file" "$first_l...
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aghast
·
2024-05-09T19:23:59Z (7 months ago)
The first line of a file is `head -1`. But you probably also want the file name. So something like:
for file in glob
do
first_line="$(head -1 "$file")"
printf "%s: %s\n" "$file" "$first_line"
done
Where `glob` above is something like `*.csv` or whatever.