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Old 04-26-2010
Adding a column with the row number using awk
Is there anyway to use awk to add a first column to my data that automatically goes from 1 to n , where n is the numbers of my rows?Smilie
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Old 04-26-2010
Code:
nawk '$1=(FNR FS $1)' myFile

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Old 04-26-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
nawk '$1=(FNR FS $1)' myFile

Output:
nawk: Command not found.

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It worked with awk Smilie Thanks!
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Old 04-26-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by cosmologist
Output:
nawk: Command not found.
use 'awk' or 'gawk' instead.
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Old 04-26-2010
Code:
cat -n myfile

might be even more straightforward if you are unfamiliar with that idiom
 
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