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 More options Aug 23 2006, 4:04 pm
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From: Dr John Stockton <j...@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:04:08 +0100
Local: Wed, Aug 23 2006 4:04 pm
Subject: Re: How to number lines in text file
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JRS:  In article <je7oe2dkg30envcaihph5sokq11ch94...@4ax.com>, dated
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:22:23 remote, seen in news:alt.msdos.batch.nt, µ
<m...@nospam.skepp.be> posted :

>I see that some people put numbers in square brackets in front of
>their batch lines. (Like Bilious does in his posts)
>How can I do this?

>So in front of every line there should be [1] [2] and so on.

For those who prefer fixed-width line numbering,

        type file.txt | COLS ^4,10001 * 1- > file.tx1

In DOS..Win98, the two filenames can be the same; in NT, XP, maybe not.
Limits : 255 characters per line, 2^31-1 lines, IIRC.  COLS via sig.

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