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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert ongoing numeration in each line? Post 302532841 by getmmg on Wednesday 22nd of June 2011 07:48:48 AM
Old 06-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloomy
I honestly have no clue what's going wrong here. I'm not doing this for the first time, and the way I'm doing it has worked before.

When I run the command

perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+ "/$j "/' q6.txt

the file looks exactly like it looked before.

I attached the file, it would be great if you could have a look at it. Thanks!
Remove the double quotes in the script.

Code:
 
perl -pe '$j=sprintf "%05d",++$i;s/\d+ /$j /' q6.txt

 

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