Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:51:23 -0400 From: Kevin Neal <Kevin.Neal@sas.com> To: "'brian@FreeBSD.org'" <brian@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: bin/27078: FreeBSD lacks nl Message-ID: <0632CC5F67853B4D96D542BAE8AD00826689C6@merc08.na.sas.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: brian@FreeBSD.org [mailto:brian@FreeBSD.org] > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:56 AM > To: Kevin.Neal@sas.com; brian@FreeBSD.org; freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: bin/27078: FreeBSD lacks nl > > > Synopsis: FreeBSD lacks nl > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: brian > State-Changed-When: Fri May 4 08:55:17 PDT 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > #! /bin/sh > exec cat -n "$@" > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27078 > Did you, perchance, read the man page for nl? NAME nl - line numbering filter SYNOPSIS nl [-p] [-b type] [-d delim] [-f type] [-h type] [-i incr] [-l num] [-n format] [-s sep] [-v startnum] [-w width] [file] That's considerably more complicated than cat -n. Since nl has already been implemented what's the harm in dropping it into FreeBSD? http://www.tac.eu.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?nl++NetBSD-1.5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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