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From: "Philip Paeps" <philip@paeps.cx>
To: "'Scott Gerhardt'" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>,
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Subject: RE: "nl" command
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 04:13:14 +0200
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> I'm new to FreeBSD but not new to Linux/UNIX so bear with me.
> I tried using "nl" to number lines in standard out put and I got this:
>
> 102 scott@blue: /home/scott > ls -al | ln
> usage: ln [-fhinsv] file1 file2
>        ln [-fhinsv] file ... directory
>        link file1 file2

You're piping to 'ln' here ... ln is used for linking files.

> My question is: what is the "nl" command under FreeBSD used
> for? I guess
> "cat -n" would give the results I'm looking for but what happend to nl
> (number lines)?

# -- snip man page -- #

To count the number of lines, try wc(1) instead.

This will count the number of lines in the output of ls -al:

% /home/scott > ls -al | wc -l

 - Philip

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