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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix Script with line number at beginning of each line. Post 302076934 by mascorro on Friday 16th of June 2006 07:29:12 PM
Old 06-16-2006
Unix Script with line number at beginning of each line.

Could anybody help me.
I need to create a script that reads a text file from STDIN and prints out the file to STDOUT with line numbers at the beginning of each line.

Thanks.
 

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line(1)                                                            User Commands                                                           line(1)

NAME
line - read one line SYNOPSIS
line DESCRIPTION
The line utility copies one line (up to and including a new-line) from the standard input and writes it on the standard output. It returns an exit status of 1 on EOF and always prints at least a new-line. It is often used within shell files to read from the user's terminal. EXIT STATUS
Exit status is: 0 Successful completion >0 End-of-file on input. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sh(1), read(2), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 line(1)
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