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To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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Subject: Re: "nl" command
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Scott Gerhardt wrote:

> 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 typed ln not nl. ln is for making symbolic links.

> 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)?

I dont know what "nl" is but I believe you want "wc" which is part of the
POSIX.2 standard. Man wc. 

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