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You can do a few things.

head and tail are both spec'd to display the first/last ten lines of a file by default - but if called w/ multiple arguments will do that for all and display the filenames between each. And, of course, for each, you can use the -n[num] argument to tailor how many lines are displayed. I assume your CTRL-C problem was related to the -f option - which would instruct tail to follow a file - you probably should just leave that out.

Another thing you might do - which will result in output a little different than in the question, but which you might still like, is...

grep -F '' ./*files 

grep is also spec'd to display the filename for its matches when it is given multiple filename arguments - but grep does it at the head of every line. Like

seq 10 >nums.txt; grep -F '' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which prints...

nums.txt:1 nums.txt:2 nums.txt:3 nums.txt:4 nums.txt:5 nums.txt:6 nums.txt:7 nums.txt:8 nums.txt:9 nums.txt:10 

...and highlighted on my terminal. The /dev/null thing is just a little trick to force the multiple file arg behavior even when working with only a single file, and grep -F '' matches every line - even blank ones.

And here's head /dev/null nums.txt:

==> /dev/null <== ==> nums.txt <== 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

tail's output is identical in this case - but, again, both utilities only print so many lines of a file.

With the latest version of GNU sed you can use the F command like:

sed -s 1F ./*files 

...or if you wanted a little border around the filename...

sed -se '1!b;i\\n---' -e 'F;i\---\n' nums.txt 

...which does like...

--- nums.txt --- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Or if you wanted to get adventurous you could do...

tar -c ./*files | tr -s \\0 | cut -d '' -f1,2,13 | tr '\0' '\n' 

...but that's probably not practical.

You can do a few things.

head and tail are both spec'd to display the first/last ten lines of a file by default - but if called w/ multiple arguments will do that for all and display the filenames for each. And, of course, for each, you can use the -n[num] argument to specify a number of lines other than the default ten that you would like to display. I assume your CTRL-C problem was related to the -f option - which would instruct tail to follow a file - you probably should just leave that out.

Another thing you might do - which will result in output a little different than in the question, but which you might still like, is...

grep -F '' ./*files 

grep is also spec'd to display the filename for its matches when it is given multiple filename arguments - but grep does it at the head of every line. Like

seq 10 >nums.txt; grep -F '' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which prints...

nums.txt:1 nums.txt:2 nums.txt:3 nums.txt:4 nums.txt:5 nums.txt:6 nums.txt:7 nums.txt:8 nums.txt:9 nums.txt:10 

...and highlighted on my terminal. The /dev/null thing is just a little trick to force the multiple file arg behavior even when working with only a single file, and grep -F '' matches every line - even blank ones.

And here's head /dev/null nums.txt:

==> /dev/null <== ==> nums.txt <== 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

tail's output is identical in this case - but, again, both utilities only print so many lines of a file.

With the latest version of GNU sed you can use the F command like:

sed -s 1F ./*files 

...or if you wanted a little border around the filename...

sed -se '1!b;i\\n---' -e 'F;i\---\n' nums.txt 

...which does like...

--- nums.txt --- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Or if you wanted to get adventurous you could do...

tar -c ./*files | tr -s \\0 | cut -d '' -f1,2,13 | tr '\0' '\n' 

...but that's probably not practical.

You can do a few things.

head and tail are both spec'd to display the first/ten lines of a file by default - but if called w/ multiple arguments will do that for all and display the filenames between each. And, of course, for each, you can use the -n[num] argument to tailor how many lines are displayed. I assume your CTRL-C problem was related to the -f option - which would instruct tail to follow a file - you probably should just leave that out.

Another thing you might do - which will result in output a little different than in the question, but which you might still like, is...

grep -F '' *files 

grep is also spec'd to display the filename for its matches when it is given multiple filename arguments - but grep does it at the head of every line. Like

seq 10 >nums.txt; grep -F '' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which prints...

nums.txt:1 nums.txt:2 nums.txt:3 nums.txt:4 nums.txt:5 nums.txt:6 nums.txt:7 nums.txt:8 nums.txt:9 nums.txt:10 

...and highlighted on my terminal. The /dev/null thing is just a little trick to force the multiple file arg behavior even when working with only a single file, and grep -F '' matches every line - even blank ones.

And here's head /dev/null nums.txt:

==> /dev/null <== ==> nums.txt <== 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

tail's output is identical in this case - but, again, both utilities only print so many lines of a file.

With the latest version of GNU sed you can use the F command like:

sed -s 1F *files 

...or if you wanted a little border around the filename...

sed -se '1!b;i\\n---' -e 'F;i\---\n' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which does like...

--- nums.txt --- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Or if you wanted to get adventurous you could do...

tar -c *files | tr -s \\0 | cut -d '' -f1,2,13 | tr '\0' '\n' 

...but that's probably not practical.

You can do a few things.

head and tail are both spec'd to display the first/last ten lines of a file by default - but if called w/ multiple arguments will do that for all and display the filenames between each. And, of course, for each, you can use the -n[num] argument to tailor how many lines are displayed. I assume your CTRL-C problem was related to the -f option - which would instruct tail to follow a file - you probably should just leave that out.

Another thing you might do - which will result in output a little different than in the question, but which you might still like, is...

grep -F '' ./*files 

grep is also spec'd to display the filename for its matches when it is given multiple filename arguments - but grep does it at the head of every line. Like

seq 10 >nums.txt; grep -F '' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which prints...

nums.txt:1 nums.txt:2 nums.txt:3 nums.txt:4 nums.txt:5 nums.txt:6 nums.txt:7 nums.txt:8 nums.txt:9 nums.txt:10 

...and highlighted on my terminal. The /dev/null thing is just a little trick to force the multiple file arg behavior even when working with only a single file, and grep -F '' matches every line - even blank ones.

And here's head /dev/null nums.txt:

==> /dev/null <== ==> nums.txt <== 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

tail's output is identical in this case - but, again, both utilities only print so many lines of a file.

With the latest version of GNU sed you can use the F command like:

sed -s 1F ./*files 

...or if you wanted a little border around the filename...

sed -se '1!b;i\\n---' -e 'F;i\---\n' nums.txt 

...which does like...

--- nums.txt --- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Or if you wanted to get adventurous you could do...

tar -c ./*files | tr -s \\0 | cut -d '' -f1,2,13 | tr '\0' '\n' 

...but that's probably not practical.

You can do a few things.

head and tail are both spec'd to display the first/ten lines of a file by default - but if called w/ multiple arguments will do that for all and display the filenames between each. And, of course, for each, you can use the -n[num] argument to tailor how many lines are displayed. I assume your CTRL-C problem was related to the -f option - which would instruct tail to follow a file - you probably should just leave that out.

Another thing you might do - which will result in output a little different than in the question, but which you might still like, is...

grep -F '' *files 

grep is also spec'd to display the filename for its matches when it is given multiple filename arguments - but grep does it at the head of every line. Like

seq 10 >nums.txt; grep -F '' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which prints...

nums.txt:1 nums.txt:2 nums.txt:3 nums.txt:4 nums.txt:5 nums.txt:6 nums.txt:7 nums.txt:8 nums.txt:9 nums.txt:10 

...and highlighted on my terminal. The /dev/null thing is just a little trick to force the multiple file arg behavior even when working with only a single file, and grep -F '' matches every line - even blank ones.

And here's head /dev/null nums.txt:

==> /dev/null <== ==> nums.txt <== 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

tail's output is identical in this case - but, again, both utilities only print so many lines of a file.

You can do a few things.

head and tail are both spec'd to display the first/ten lines of a file by default - but if called w/ multiple arguments will do that for all and display the filenames between each. And, of course, for each, you can use the -n[num] argument to tailor how many lines are displayed. I assume your CTRL-C problem was related to the -f option - which would instruct tail to follow a file - you probably should just leave that out.

Another thing you might do - which will result in output a little different than in the question, but which you might still like, is...

grep -F '' *files 

grep is also spec'd to display the filename for its matches when it is given multiple filename arguments - but grep does it at the head of every line. Like

seq 10 >nums.txt; grep -F '' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which prints...

nums.txt:1 nums.txt:2 nums.txt:3 nums.txt:4 nums.txt:5 nums.txt:6 nums.txt:7 nums.txt:8 nums.txt:9 nums.txt:10 

...and highlighted on my terminal. The /dev/null thing is just a little trick to force the multiple file arg behavior even when working with only a single file, and grep -F '' matches every line - even blank ones.

And here's head /dev/null nums.txt:

==> /dev/null <== ==> nums.txt <== 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

tail's output is identical in this case - but, again, both utilities only print so many lines of a file.

With the latest version of GNU sed you can use the F command like:

sed -s 1F *files 

...or if you wanted a little border around the filename...

sed -se '1!b;i\\n---' -e 'F;i\---\n' /dev/null nums.txt 

...which does like...

--- nums.txt --- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Or if you wanted to get adventurous you could do...

tar -c *files | tr -s \\0 | cut -d '' -f1,2,13 | tr '\0' '\n' 

...but that's probably not practical.