On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:50:16PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 18:57, Arto Jonsson wrote: > > Taken from netbsd with minor modifications. Comments? > > I don't think you've received much feedback. I don't know how other > developers feel, but the question I have is can't this be done with a > rather simple awk script? or perl? One of the reasons we have perl in > base is precisely so it can be used for things like this.
nl(1) is standard, so whatever the implementation, it would be fine to have it. Are you volunteering to write an awk/perl script that does this ?