The command head can be used to print the first few lines of a file. The default use of head with print the first 10 lines of the file, but a flag can be used to print more or fewer lines.

$ head -n 25 fake_data_file.txt

Use of -n 25 will print the first 25 lines, as opposed to the original 10. Otherwise, default use would be:

$ head fake_data_file.txt