How to get only the first ten bytes of a binary file

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To get the first 10 bytes, as noted already:

head -c 10

To get all but the first 10 bytes (at least with GNU tail):

tail -c+11

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head -c 10 does the right thing here.

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You can use the dd command to copy an arbitrary number of bytes from a binary file.

dd if=infile of=outfile1 bs=10 count=1dd if=infile of=outfile2 bs=10 skip=1

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