Shortening large CSV on debian

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Published on 2009-02-04T12:56:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 19:11 UTC
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I have a very large CSV file and I need to write an app that will parse it but using the >6GB file to test against is painful, is there a simple way to extract the first hundred or two lines without having to load the entire file into memory?

The file resides on a Debian server.

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