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From: schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to add line numbers to a text file?
Message-ID: <6829@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 90 19:11:24 GMT
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Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:

>I need to add line numbers to a text file.

>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?

Under SunOS I would type:

	cat -n filename > wherever

Or under most any Unix:

	awk -e '{print NR, "  ",$0}' filename > wherever


	Happy hacking!

		Steven

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