How to print the first and last parts of a file in Linux

First part

1. Open terminal
2. Type
   
   
   head -n {n} {file}

{n} is the number of lines to return

{file} name of the file

Last part

1. Open terminal
2. Type
   
   
   tail -n {n} {file}

{n} is the number of lines to return

{file} name of the file

Example

Print the first 10 lines of the blogger.log file

head -n 10 blogger.log

Print the last 10 lines of the blogger.log file

tail -n 10 blogger.log

Source: http://linux.die.net/man/1/head
http://linux.die.net/man/1/tail