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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: "nl" command
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:49:47AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 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

typso hapen

Edwin :-)

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