On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:40:26AM -0500, Zhao Peng wrote: > Kevin, > > Thank you very much! I really appreciate it. > > I like your "find" approach, it's simple and easy to understand. > > I'll also try to understand your perl approach, when I got time to start > learning it. (Hopefully it won't be un-fulfilled forever) > > I have one more question: > > Is it possible to number the extracted string2? > > Say, the output file contains the following list of extracted string2: > > st > region > local > > Any idea about what command to use to number the list to make it look > like below: > > 1 st > 2 region > 3 local
Pipe the output into "pr -n -T" This is not pr's intended use, but it will work. -n option means "put numbers on the lines, -T option means "No page breaks". The "-n" option appears to be missing from the FC2 man pages. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss