“head” command for aws s3 to view file contents

Question

On Linux, we generally use the head/tail commands to preview the contents of a file. It helps in viewing a part of the file (to inspect the format for instance), rather than ope

Answer 1

One thing you could do is cp the object to stout and then pipe it to head:

aws s3 cp s3://path/to/my/object - | head

You get a broken pipe error at the end but it works.