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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

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