NUML v1.21 - number lines
Documentation revised 21 Oct 00 - Copyright (c) 1996-2000 by Rune Berg. TextTools Freeware.

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Usage Top || Next

numl [log logfile] [options] [infile] [to outfile]

See Understanding The Usage Section for details.


Description Top || Previous || Next

numl copies infile to outfile, preceeding every line with a line number (1, 2, ...).

If you don't specify infile, numl reads from standard input.
If you don't specify outfile, numl writes to standard output.
If you don't specify logfile, numl writes error messages to standard error.


Example Top || Previous || Next

Consider the example file "mydata.txt", containing four lines:

      this is the first line
      and this is the second
      
      and this is the last

The command:

      numl mydata.txt

prints:

      1 this is the first line
      2 and this is the second
      3
      4 and this is the last

The command:

      numl -s0 -nw "-f03 : " mydata.txt

prints:

      0000 : this is the first line
      0001 : and this is the second
      
      0003 : and this is the last

The command:

      numl -cw mydata.txt

prints:

      1 this is the first line
      2 and this is the second
      
      3 and this is the last


Options Top || Previous || Next

numl recognizes the following command line options:

An empty line is a line containing only newline.


Return Codes Top || Previous || Next

numl returns with one of the following codes ("error levels"):

For more details, see TextTools General Features.


Version History Top || Previous

These are the released versions of numl:

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