Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Christopher Stone
On 03/30/2019, at 06:48, @lbutlr mailto:krem...@kreme.com>> wrote: > osxutils looks interesting. Hey Lewis, Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten to install those critters. In general they're pretty edge-case commands, but they have their uses. -- Best Regards, Chris -- This is the

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Bill Kochman
Actually, Homebrew is my default go-to choice for Terminal-based installations. However, I figured that MacPorts probably needed an update — which it did — and so then I decided to try to find something with it, which I couldn’t find with Homebrew. As it turned out, what I was looking for — nl

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread @lbutlr
On 30 Mar 2019, at 05:37, Bill Kochman wrote: > > Ha! I took it a step further and installed coreutils, moreutils, findutils > and a number of others, via Homebrew and MacPorts. Both? I would pick one (Homebrew) and stick with it. I gave up MacPorts because it required a full install of Xcode

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Bill Kochman
Ha! I took it a step further and installed coreutils, moreutils, findutils and a number of others, via Homebrew and MacPorts. Do you think I overdid it a bit? The way I figure, they take up so little space, I’d rather have them there for the rare occasion when someday some app may need one of

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread @lbutlr
On 30 Mar 2019, at 03:37, Christopher Stone wrote: > > `nl` is a part of coreutils. > > Here's a list of them: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_Core_Utilities_commands And, veering ever so slightly off topic, there is also findutils which gives you access to gnu find and locate

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Bill Kochman
Hello Chris, Ha! Yes, I in fact figured that out and installed coreutils just a bit ago. Thanks for your time! :) Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com > On Mar 30, 2019, at 7:37 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 03/30/2019, at 03:48,

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Christopher Stone
On 03/30/2019, at 03:48, Bill Kochman mailto:wordweaver...@gmail.com>> wrote: > BTW, I tried to install GNU nl via Homebrew, but I was unable to locate it. > In the Terminal, neither “nl” or “gnunl” worked. Likewise, I visited > Homebrew’s formulae page on the web, and I couldn’t[’t locate it

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Bill Kochman
Thanks Chris! The updated script works great! :) BTW, I tried to install GNU nl via Homebrew, but I was unable to locate it. In the Terminal, neither “nl” or “gnunl” worked. Likewise, I visited Homebrew’s formulae page on the web, and I couldn’t[’t locate it there either. I suspect that it

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Christopher Stone
On 03/30/2019, at 02:35, Bill Kochman mailto:wordweaver...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Chris, you wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > nl -nrz -w2 -s'. ' > > That works on all lines. What about if you have blank lines in the document? > While it works fine on files that have continuous lines of text, the

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

2019-03-30 Thread Christopher Stone
On 03/28/2019, at 08:25, Rod Buchanan mailto:r...@kdsi.com>> wrote: > Or create a two-line shell script (name it "NumberLines.sh") and put it in > Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters > > #!/bin/sh > nl -ba -s '. ' Hey Folks, This method is problematic in that it