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Article #3824Re: Adding Line Numbers to a text file
From: Dominic Mitchell
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:00
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In comp.text, Arnzie <mkarnel@ballarat.starway.net.au> wrote:
>Hi, I was wondering if anybody could tell me where I could find a program
>which prints line numbers.
>I have a text file with the code from a program I made in Borland JBuilder,
>and I want to add line numbers to the start
>for easy reference. If anybody knows of such a program, could they please
>email me at mkarnel@ballarat.starway.net.au
If your Unix has it, you can use the nl(1) utility. Otherwise, some
versions of cat(1) can do line numbering for you. Failing all that, try
using a little awk(1) script along the lines of:
$ awk '{print NR, $0}' file > newfile
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