Unix: show line numbers along with file content
June 09, 2007 02:26:07 Last update: June 09, 2007 02:26:07
Use the
nl command to display line numbers for each line in a file:
nl file1 # display contents of file1, but prepend each line with line number nl -ba file1 # same as above, except that line numbers are also shown for empty lines here