From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 19:19:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0422637B411 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1057F6AB15; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:49:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:49:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: Scott Gerhardt , FreeBSD Subject: Re: "nl" command Message-ID: <20011015114946.G69347@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20011015121322.R2865@k7.mavetju.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011015121322.R2865@k7.mavetju.org>; from edwin@mavetju.org on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:13:22PM +1000 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 15 October 2001 at 12:13:22 +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:18:52PM -0600, 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 > > ln, nl, what's in a name... > > can -n does the trick you want. $ can bash: can: command not found Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message