diff --git a/src/uu/head/src/cli.rs b/src/uu/head/src/cli.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..823d3869116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/uu/head/src/cli.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+// This file is part of the uutils coreutils package.
+//
+// For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+// file that was distributed with this source code.
+
+use clap::{Arg, ArgAction, Command};
+use std::ffi::OsString;
+use uucore::format_usage;
+use uucore::translate;
+
+pub mod options {
+    pub const BYTES: &str = "BYTES";
+    pub const LINES: &str = "LINES";
+    pub const QUIET: &str = "QUIET";
+    pub const VERBOSE: &str = "VERBOSE";
+    pub const ZERO: &str = "ZERO";
+    pub const FILES: &str = "FILE";
+    pub const PRESUME_INPUT_PIPE: &str = "-PRESUME-INPUT-PIPE";
+}
+
+pub fn uu_app() -> Command {
+    Command::new("head")
+        .version(uucore::crate_version!())
+        .help_template(uucore::localized_help_template("head"))
+        .about(translate!("head-about"))
+        .override_usage(format_usage(&translate!("head-usage")))
+        .infer_long_args(true)
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new(options::BYTES)
+                .short('c')
+                .long("bytes")
+                .value_name("[-]NUM")
+                .help(translate!("head-help-bytes"))
+                .overrides_with_all([options::BYTES, options::LINES])
+                .allow_hyphen_values(true),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new(options::LINES)
+                .short('n')
+                .long("lines")
+                .value_name("[-]NUM")
+                .help(translate!("head-help-lines"))
+                .overrides_with_all([options::LINES, options::BYTES])
+                .allow_hyphen_values(true),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new(options::QUIET)
+                .short('q')
+                .long("quiet")
+                .visible_alias("silent")
+                .help(translate!("head-help-quiet"))
+                .overrides_with_all([options::VERBOSE, options::QUIET])
+                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new(options::VERBOSE)
+                .short('v')
+                .long("verbose")
+                .help(translate!("head-help-verbose"))
+                .overrides_with_all([options::QUIET, options::VERBOSE])
+                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new(options::PRESUME_INPUT_PIPE)
+                .long("presume-input-pipe")
+                .alias("-presume-input-pipe")
+                .hide(true)
+                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new(options::ZERO)
+                .short('z')
+                .long("zero-terminated")
+                .help(translate!("head-help-zero-terminated"))
+                .overrides_with(options::ZERO)
+                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new(options::FILES)
+                .action(ArgAction::Append)
+                .value_parser(clap::value_parser!(OsString))
+                .value_hint(clap::ValueHint::FilePath),
+        )
+}
diff --git a/src/uu/head/src/head.rs b/src/uu/head/src/head.rs
index 43ebc47aa6b..1fbb21dcb4c 100644
--- a/src/uu/head/src/head.rs
+++ b/src/uu/head/src/head.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 // spell-checker:ignore (vars) seekable memrchr
 
-use clap::{Arg, ArgAction, ArgMatches, Command};
+use clap::ArgMatches;
 use memchr::memrchr_iter;
 use std::ffi::OsString;
 use std::fs::File;
@@ -18,20 +18,14 @@ use thiserror::Error;
 use uucore::display::{Quotable, print_verbatim};
 use uucore::error::{FromIo, UError, UResult, USimpleError};
 use uucore::line_ending::LineEnding;
+use uucore::show;
 use uucore::translate;
-use uucore::{format_usage, show};
 
 const BUF_SIZE: usize = 65536;
 
-mod options {
-    pub const BYTES: &str = "BYTES";
-    pub const LINES: &str = "LINES";
-    pub const QUIET: &str = "QUIET";
-    pub const VERBOSE: &str = "VERBOSE";
-    pub const ZERO: &str = "ZERO";
-    pub const FILES: &str = "FILE";
-    pub const PRESUME_INPUT_PIPE: &str = "-PRESUME-INPUT-PIPE";
-}
+mod cli;
+use crate::cli::options;
+pub use crate::cli::uu_app;
 
 mod parse;
 mod take;
@@ -66,71 +60,6 @@ impl UError for HeadError {
 
 type HeadResult<T> = Result<T, HeadError>;
 
-pub fn uu_app() -> Command {
-    Command::new("head")
-        .version(uucore::crate_version!())
-        .help_template(uucore::localized_help_template("head"))
-        .about(translate!("head-about"))
-        .override_usage(format_usage(&translate!("head-usage")))
-        .infer_long_args(true)
-        .arg(
-            Arg::new(options::BYTES)
-                .short('c')
-                .long("bytes")
-                .value_name("[-]NUM")
-                .help(translate!("head-help-bytes"))
-                .overrides_with_all([options::BYTES, options::LINES])
-                .allow_hyphen_values(true),
-        )
-        .arg(
-            Arg::new(options::LINES)
-                .short('n')
-                .long("lines")
-                .value_name("[-]NUM")
-                .help(translate!("head-help-lines"))
-                .overrides_with_all([options::LINES, options::BYTES])
-                .allow_hyphen_values(true),
-        )
-        .arg(
-            Arg::new(options::QUIET)
-                .short('q')
-                .long("quiet")
-                .visible_alias("silent")
-                .help(translate!("head-help-quiet"))
-                .overrides_with_all([options::VERBOSE, options::QUIET])
-                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
-        )
-        .arg(
-            Arg::new(options::VERBOSE)
-                .short('v')
-                .long("verbose")
-                .help(translate!("head-help-verbose"))
-                .overrides_with_all([options::QUIET, options::VERBOSE])
-                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
-        )
-        .arg(
-            Arg::new(options::PRESUME_INPUT_PIPE)
-                .long("presume-input-pipe")
-                .alias("-presume-input-pipe")
-                .hide(true)
-                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
-        )
-        .arg(
-            Arg::new(options::ZERO)
-                .short('z')
-                .long("zero-terminated")
-                .help(translate!("head-help-zero-terminated"))
-                .overrides_with(options::ZERO)
-                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue),
-        )
-        .arg(
-            Arg::new(options::FILES)
-                .action(ArgAction::Append)
-                .value_parser(clap::value_parser!(OsString))
-                .value_hint(clap::ValueHint::FilePath),
-        )
-}
-
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
 enum Mode {
     FirstLines(u64),