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# 1  
Old 12-15-2011
add a number to the beginning of every line
hey,

i would like to add a line number to the beginning like so:

Code:
red 
blue
green
yellow

will be:
Code:
1=>red 
2=>blue
3=>green
4=>yellow

please advise
thank u.
# 2  
Old 12-15-2011
What Operating System and version you you have?
What Shell or Programming Language do you use?

Do you actually want the characters ">=" in the output?
How many records? Unix Shell has trouble counting above 2^23 .
# 3  
Old 12-15-2011
i
thank u for your reply
i use red hat i think it's the latest version
using perl ,sed, awk , bash or nl will be fine
and yes i do want ">=" included
# 4  
Old 12-15-2011
Unix provided a nice utilty called nl (number line) see if that could help
you. If not see if this works for you

Code:
 
cat xx.data
 
red
hello world
green
blue ribbon winner

 
cat xx.ksh
 
#!/bin/ksh
let lineno=0
while read dataline
do
   let lineno=lineno+1
   echo "$lineno=> $dataline"
done < ./xx.data

 
./xx.ksh
 
1=> red
2=> hello world
3=> green
4=> blue ribbon winner

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# 5  
Old 12-15-2011
See if your version of nl supports the -s option:
Code:
nl -s '=>' myfile > mynewfile

IT should have that option, because -s is part of the POSIX standard.
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# 6  
Old 12-15-2011
The Perl way.
Code:
perl -pe 'BEGIN{$i=1}s/^/$i=>/;$i++' inputfile.txt

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