Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 04:13:14 +0200 From: "Philip Paeps" <philip@paeps.cx> To: "'Scott Gerhardt'" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>, "'FreeBSD'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: "nl" command Message-ID: <01be01c1551e$f28fe160$0200000a@paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGCEABCKAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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 - -- Philip Paeps philip@paeps.cx http://www.vitaya.tv -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.1 iQA/AwUBO8pGOr9L0OYEnbh5EQKQ5wCg7sFnyX55Xo0KPSL+7yaxK8OYFeoAnRSh +Xq59nthrpjNZf5DM157rjSo =FT1s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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