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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Counting and appending an integer in VI?
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.113611.1625@convex.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 11:36:11 GMT
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From the keyboard of R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh):
|Assume a file with 10 foxes.
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|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
|foxes
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|I want to change it to
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|foxes1
|foxes2
|foxes3
|foxes4
|foxes5
|foxes6
|foxes7
|foxes8
|foxes9
|foxes10
|
|Is it possible in VI.

All things are possible; not all are expedient.  For both, try this:

:%!perl -pe 's/$/$./'

or this.

:%!awk '{print $0 NR}'

or whatever.  I dare say even nroff filters are possible, but then 
we're probably straying a bit from expediency. :-)

--tom
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