The command nl
It is part of coreutils

`man nl' to see usage. 

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On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:17:17PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>       What's the best way to prefix lines of codes with line numbers for
> easier lookup and printing?
> 
> eg: 
> line 1
> line 2
> 
> becomes
> 1: line 1
> 2: line 2
> 
> I'm currently doing 
> 
> grep -n "" source-code
> 
> What's the equilvalent to doing it with sed??
> 
> cat source-code | sed 's:^:[What do I put here?]:g'
> 
> 
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> Ow Mun Heng
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> 
> 
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