What's the difference between print and head?

Question

I know head gives you the beginning section of a file. But in this case, I'm trying to go through my source control and find every file that has a shebang line. And I'm failing to get results when I use head. What am I doing wrong?

When I say doesn't work, i mean it returns nothing. But I know it should've returned something.

Works, but slow!

find . | awk '!/((\.jpeg)|(\.jpg)|(\.html)|(\.png))$/ {print $0; }' | xargs grep "#!"

Doesn't Work

find . | awk '!/((\.jpeg)|(\.jpg)|(\.html)|(\.png))$/ {head $0; }' | xargs grep "#!"

Update As @devnull pointed out, and easily verified by googling. I'll list here for reference: Awk Commands

if ( conditional ) statement [ else statement ]
while ( conditional ) statement
for ( expression ; conditional ; expression ) statement
for ( variable in array ) statement
break
continue
{ [ statement ] ...}
variable=expression
print [ expression-list ] [ > expression ]
printf format [ , expression-list ] [ > expression ]
next
exit

Answer 1

Awk is a command which is an interpreter for a programming language that is aimed at simple text processing. Though it can, it's not really meant to be used to call other commands like the head command.

Here, you could have a shell do the work:

find . -type f \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -o -name '*.png' \
                  -o -name '*.html' \) -exec sh -c '
  for file do
    IFS= read -r line < "$file" &&
       case $line in
         ("#!"*) printf "%s\n" "$file: $line"
       esac
  done' sh {} +

If you wanted to do it with awk, with GNU awk:

find . -type f \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -o -name '*.png' \
                  -o -name '*.html' \) -exec awk '
    /^#!/ {print FILENAME ": " $0}; {nextfile}' {} +

With other awks:

find . -type f \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -o -name '*.png' \
                  -o -name '*.html' \) -exec awk '
   BEGIN {
     for (i = 1; i < ARGC; i++)
       if ((getline < ARGV[i]) > 0 && /^#!/)
         print ARGV[i] ": " $0
     exit
   }' {} +

Answer 2

Something like grep -R '^#!' . should rapidly give a list of candidates for more detailed analysis.