NL
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
NAME
nl - number lines of files
SYNOPSIS
nl
[OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -b, --body-numbering=STYLE
-
use STYLE for numbering body lines
- -d, --section-delimiter=CC
-
use CC for separating logical pages
- -f, --footer-numbering=STYLE
-
use STYLE for numbering footer lines
- -h, --header-numbering=STYLE
-
use STYLE for numbering header lines
- -i, --line-increment=NUMBER
-
line number increment at each line
- -l, --join-blank-lines=NUMBER
-
group of NUMBER empty lines counted as one
- -n, --number-format=FORMAT
-
insert line numbers according to FORMAT
- -p, --no-renumber
-
do not reset line numbers at logical pages
- -s, --number-separator=STRING
-
add STRING after (possible) line number
- -v, --starting-line-number=NUMBER
-
first line number on each logical page
- -w, --number-width=NUMBER
-
use NUMBER columns for line numbers
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn. CC are
two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing
second character implies :. Type \\ for \. STYLE is one of:
- a
-
number all lines
- t
-
number only nonempty lines
- n
-
number no lines
- pBRE
-
number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular
expression, BRE
FORMAT is one of:
- ln
-
left justified, no leading zeros
- rn
-
right justified, no leading zeros
- rz
-
right justified, leading zeros
AUTHOR
Written by Scott Bartram and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report nl bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report nl translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
nl
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
nl
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'nl invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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