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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2001 14:08:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.bin/nl Makefile nl.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010504140824.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200105042056.f44KuZB59583@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On 04-May-01 Brian Somers wrote:
>> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:25:24AM -0700, Brian Somers wrote:
>> > brian       2001/05/04 10:25:24 PDT
>> >=20
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     usr.bin              Makefile=20
>> >   Added files:
>> >     usr.bin/nl           Makefile nl.1 nl.c=20
>> >   Log:
>> >   Add nl(1)
>> >  =20
>> >   PR:              27078
>> >   Obtained from:   NetBSD
>> 
>> What does this do?
> 
> NAME
>      nl - line numbering filter
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>       [-p] [-b type] [-d delim] [-f type] [-h type] [-i incr] [-l num]
>       [-n format] [-s sep] [-v startnum] [-w width] [file]
> 
> It essentially stuffs numbers in front of lines.

About like "awk '{ printf "%d:%s\n", NR, $0 }'" then?

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