Numbering lines in a file Post: 30268

Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content

Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Numbering lines in a file Post 30268 by minazk on Friday 18th of October 2002 06:33:26 PM

Old

10-18-2002

minazk

Guest

Numbering lines in a file

Hi all,

I need to number the lines in a file.
I tried using "set nu" in the vi editor, but it is only temporary.
Can anyone help me please.

Thanx in advance.

MK

minazk

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Numbering lines in a file

Hi all, I need to number the lines in a file. I tried using "set nu" in the vi editor, but it is only temporary. Can anyone help me please. Thanx in advance. MK

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Numbering Lines

Hello everyone, I want get numbered lines from a file. and i can do it with: sed = file.txt | sed "/./N; s/\n/ /" | sed -n "5,7p" but the output that i get is something similar to: 5 line5 6 line6 7 line7 and i want something like this (with 2points after the number): 5:...

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Numbering lines grep

Is there a way to number lines and use something other than ":" to separate the number from the line? Or can anyone recommend a way to replace the ":" with a tab? Here's what I'm working with: 16859:52.67 16860:46 16861:39.63 16862:33.88 16863:29.64 16864:26.27 16865:22.09...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Numbering a Text File

Running into a little problem with blank lines. My file is of this format: To number each line of the file i would use: n=1 echo "$FILE" | while read line do echo "$n) $line" n=`expr $n + 1` But really, i dont want to number the blank lines. What i've tried is to use sed...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

numbering lines according to a condition

hello again guys, I tried to make a script but due to array's limitations I didn't succeed...so I'm asking you :) I need numbering the lines according to date (everyday I need to restart the counter) for example: ABCBD 20080101 XXX 1 FSDFD 20080101 BBB 2 FSDFD 20080102 HHH 1 and so...

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

numbering each line in a text file

I have a simple text file. I want to number each line in that file . for example: My text file is unix my file test My output should be 1 unix 2 my file 3 test

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ghostscript output file numbering?

I am using ghostscript to convert a multi-page pdf file to individual jpg files. I am wondering if there is a way to get ghostscript to start numbering the output jpg files from zero? What i am trying to convey is that it starts naming my files from page_001.jpg, page_002.jpg, etc., and would like...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

help with numbering a file

Hi, All I need to do is number a file. The file looks like this > JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ > JKJKJKKKKKKJJJ > MMMMYKKKJKKK what I want to do is number it so that theres a numerical value beside the >. >1 JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ >2 JKJKJKKKKKKJJJ

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Numbering file's lines

hey a file called test : Code: hey1 hey2 hey3 ........ how to : Code: 1.hey1 2.hey2 3.hey3 ..........

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

numbering lines in a file

if we execute :set nu in vi mode, it displays the line numbers. so how to make this permanently in a file. Whenever i execute cat , the line numbers should be there. please help me. thanks

LEARN ABOUT MINIX

nl

NL(1)								   User Commands							     NL(1)

NAME

       nl - number lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       nl [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -b, --body-numbering=STYLE
	      use STYLE for numbering body lines

       -d, --section-delimiter=CC
	      use CC for logical page delimiters

       -f, --footer-numbering=STYLE
	      use STYLE for numbering footer lines

       -h, --header-numbering=STYLE
	      use STYLE for numbering header lines

       -i, --line-increment=NUMBER
	      line number increment at each line

       -l, --join-blank-lines=NUMBER
	      group of NUMBER empty lines counted as one

       -n, --number-format=FORMAT
	      insert line numbers according to FORMAT

       -p, --no-renumber
	      do not reset line numbers for each section

       -s, --number-separator=STRING
	      add STRING after (possible) line number

       -v, --starting-line-number=NUMBER
	      first line number for each section

       -w, --number-width=NUMBER
	      use NUMBER columns for line numbers

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       By  default,  selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn.  CC are two delimiter characters used to construct logical page delimiters, a
       missing second character implies :.  Type \ for .  STYLE is one of:

       a      number all lines

       t      number only nonempty lines

       n      number no lines

       pBRE   number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular expression, BRE

       FORMAT is one of:

       ln     left justified, no leading zeros

       rn     right justified, no leading zeros

       rz     right justified, leading zeros

AUTHOR

       Written by Scott Bartram and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report nl translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nl>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nl invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.28						   January 2018 							     NL(1)