Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:52:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "nl" command Message-ID: <20011015115221.H69347@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110142212300.47683-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from scanner@jurai.net on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:18:19PM -0400 References: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGCEABCKAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110142212300.47683-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sunday, 14 October 2001 at 22:18:19 -0400, scanner@jurai.net wrote:
> 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.
ln is used for making any kind of link. Without options (as shown
here), it makes a real link. With -s it makes a symlink.
>> 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.
He doesn't want to count, he wants to number the lines:
$ ls -ld ssh-*
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Dec 23 2000 ssh-Bag65123
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 7 15:14 ssh-Glhlk257
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 13 10:27 ssh-Ixp28173
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Mar 27 2001 ssh-OgRDn294
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 10 09:57 ssh-URj82414
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 7 13:46 ssh-XjbEI258
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Feb 6 2001 ssh-YURJo276
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 12 2000 ssh-ata89580
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 12 11:15 ssh-hUi74003
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 19 12:18 ssh-iGjNg246
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Dec 26 2000 ssh-kBg82553
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Sep 22 15:04 ssh-kTIcf250
drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 15 11:01 ssh-voH53612
$ ls -ld ssh-* | gnl
1 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Dec 23 2000 ssh-Bag65123
2 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 7 15:14 ssh-Glhlk257
3 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 13 10:27 ssh-Ixp28173
4 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Mar 27 2001 ssh-OgRDn294
5 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 10 09:57 ssh-URj82414
6 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 7 13:46 ssh-XjbEI258
7 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Feb 6 2001 ssh-YURJo276
8 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 12 2000 ssh-ata89580
9 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 12 11:15 ssh-hUi74003
10 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Aug 19 12:18 ssh-iGjNg246
11 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Dec 26 2000 ssh-kBg82553
12 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Sep 22 15:04 ssh-kTIcf250
13 drwx------ 2 grog wheel 512 Oct 15 11:01 ssh-voH53612
Greg
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