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Old 04-12-2009
Place number with awk
Hello,
if I've a list of number

23
34
56
78

how I can place a sequence of ordinated number in a boundary column so


1 23
2 34
3 56
4 78

Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 04-12-2009
Code:
awk '{print FNR, $0}' myFile

# 3  
Old 04-12-2009
great!
# 4  
Old 04-12-2009
Code:
# nl file
     1  23
     2  34
     3  56
     4  78

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