I've used the -n option to cat recently to get line numbers. E.g.: cat -n README.txt
I don't remember using nl before. On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:15 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > Those of you who are professional system/network admins probably know about > the little tool, 'nl,' that numbers lines in text files > <https://ss64.com/bash/nl.html>. For non-professionals like me it's a > great > find as I work regularly with text files and it solved a problem more > quickly than by using gawk. > > Perhaps others will find this useful on occasion. > > Regards, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
