(re line numbers) Ah, I should have said, that was in VMS. I did get VIM for
VMS though but I was never a maestro. There are happier VMS installations
with unix workalike interfaces, not there then though.
Peter

On 7/21/08, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> stephen mulcahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Peter St. John wrote:
> >> Line numbers are super convenient for peer-review, so humans can
> >> refer to lines. I've written C programs just to preprend every line
> >> with a consequtive integer.
> >> Peter
> >
> > cat -n is your friend.
>
> and if it didn't exist, the corresponding awk program is:
>
>   awk '{printf "%d %s\n", FNR, $0}'
>
> and Unix has about 10 other trivial ways to do this. (That's probably
> not even the simplest awk program, but I'm lazy today.)
>
>
> Perry
>
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