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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to add line numbers to a text file?
Message-ID: <15248:Nov3018:01:4490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:01:44 GMT
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In article <6826@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
> My question to all of you, however, is this: faced with the need to
> number a text file from a shell script, how would you do it? I'm
> kind of curious to see the variety of approaches possible. Would you
> use C, awk, perl, sed, sh, cat, echo, expr, and/or dd?

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---Dan