[PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Thu May 23 16:30:39 UTC 2019


less -N fileName

Will display the line numbers too.

Vim and emacs have some ways of doing it too.

-T

On Thu, May 23, 2019, 01:57 Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> I've used the -n option to cat recently to get line numbers. E.g.:
>
>   cat -n README.txt
>
> I don't remember using nl before.
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:15 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Those of you who are professional system/network admins probably know
> about
> > the little tool, 'nl,' that numbers lines in text files
> > <https://ss64.com/bash/nl.html>. For non-professionals like me it's a
> > great
> > find as I work regularly with text files and it solved a problem more
> > quickly than by using gawk.
> >
> > Perhaps others will find this useful on occasion.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rich
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