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Old 05-19-2008
trey85stang trey85stang is offline
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Originally Posted by elthox View Post
Maybe like this:

cat -n something| awk '$1>11 && (the conditions you like)

cat -n adds to the first coloumn the number of line.

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sounds like that will work, then I can just exclude the first column on the print out with awk.

Thanks for the help!