diff --git a/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml
index f22fc9afd..78f4abcd8 100644
--- a/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 path = "src/head.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-clap = { version = "2.33", features = ["wrap_help"] }
+clap = { version = "3.0", features = ["wrap_help", "cargo"] }
 memchr = "2"
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.10", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["ringbuffer"] }
 uucore_procs = { version=">=0.0.7", package="uucore_procs", path="../../uucore_procs" }
diff --git a/src/uu/head/src/head.rs b/src/uu/head/src/head.rs
index e3325d084..140f40f05 100644
--- a/src/uu/head/src/head.rs
+++ b/src/uu/head/src/head.rs
@@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ use lines::zlines;
 use take::take_all_but;
 use take::take_lines;
 
-pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
+pub fn uu_app<'a>() -> App<'a> {
     App::new(uucore::util_name())
         .version(crate_version!())
         .about(ABOUT)
-        .usage(USAGE)
+        .override_usage(USAGE)
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::BYTES_NAME)
-                .short("c")
+            Arg::new(options::BYTES_NAME)
+                .short('c')
                 .long("bytes")
                 .value_name("[-]NUM")
                 .takes_value(true)
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
                 .allow_hyphen_values(true),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::LINES_NAME)
-                .short("n")
+            Arg::new(options::LINES_NAME)
+                .short('n')
                 .long("lines")
                 .value_name("[-]NUM")
                 .takes_value(true)
@@ -80,28 +80,28 @@ pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
                 .allow_hyphen_values(true),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::QUIET_NAME)
-                .short("q")
+            Arg::new(options::QUIET_NAME)
+                .short('q')
                 .long("quiet")
                 .visible_alias("silent")
                 .help("never print headers giving file names")
                 .overrides_with_all(&[options::VERBOSE_NAME, options::QUIET_NAME]),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::VERBOSE_NAME)
-                .short("v")
+            Arg::new(options::VERBOSE_NAME)
+                .short('v')
                 .long("verbose")
                 .help("always print headers giving file names")
                 .overrides_with_all(&[options::QUIET_NAME, options::VERBOSE_NAME]),
         )
         .arg(
-            Arg::with_name(options::ZERO_NAME)
-                .short("z")
+            Arg::new(options::ZERO_NAME)
+                .short('z')
                 .long("zero-terminated")
                 .help("line delimiter is NUL, not newline")
                 .overrides_with(options::ZERO_NAME),
         )
-        .arg(Arg::with_name(options::FILES_NAME).multiple(true))
+        .arg(Arg::new(options::FILES_NAME).multiple_occurrences(true))
 }
 #[derive(PartialEq, Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 enum Modes {