Output a certain number of files from a directory to the console, using a bash script?

Question

linux

Hello, I need to display a certain number of filenames from a specified directory, I also need these names to fit in the written number of lines. I personally have not seen this in man ls, and I do not quite understand how this can be implemented in a simple way, the only thing that is clear to me is that you need to use positional parameters. How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

ls -n | head -n 5 # will give you the first 5 lines, is that enough?