Re: Line numbering

 perl -pe '$_ = "$.: $_"' your_file >your_new_file
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Update: I missed to skip the empty lines:

perl -pe '$_ = /\S/ ? ++$q .": $_" : ""' in >out
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Boris

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Re^2: Line numbering by Jasper (Chaplain) on Oct 04, 2004 at 12:43 UTC
As an alternative, you can decrement `$.` with no ill effects, apart from forgetting where you actually are. :) `perl -pe '/\S/ ? s/^/$.: / : --$.'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]