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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding a sequence number within a file Post 302330187 by vgersh99 on Tuesday 30th of June 2009 11:47:43 AM
Old 06-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolph
Thanks for that.
Its putting out a ^I after the line number. Is it possible to remove this?

Thanks
'man nl'
Code:
     -ssep sep is the character(s) used in  separating  the  line
           number and the corresponding text line. Default sep is
           a TAB.

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -F, --field-sep sep
	   Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".

       -w, --width width
	   Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.

       -c, --columns cols
	   Number of columns. Default is 3.

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