Also, a side note, I would rather just run "head massivefile" or even better "le...

sigjuice · on Sept 7, 2016

But you miss out on this award if you don't use cat :p http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html

vram22 · on Sept 7, 2016

And on systems where head was not present (seen some earlier), but sed was, you could do:

sed nq file

where n is some positive integer, to print the first n lines of the file.

Also, body (the complement of head and tail :)

# body

sed -n $1,$2p $3