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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Leading blanks Post 302774245 by MadeInGermany on Friday 1st of March 2013 01:07:00 PM
Old 03-01-2013
English please!
And you wrapped in ICODE - CODE looks better.

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Code:
printf "%3s\n" `cat file`
awk '{printf "%3s\n",$0}' file

 

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