Re: nat() in pure shell

[Marc Chantreux <eiro@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 10:08:34PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >      yes '' | nl -ba
> > 
> > is a lot of extra caracters
> > 
> > 00000000: 2020 2020 2031 090a 2020 2020 2032 090a       1..     2..
> 
> Then pipe it to 'xargs -n1' or tr(1) or sed(1) or ...

yes .. but if i really want to avoid the shell version, i'll go to awk:

    awk -vi=${1-0} 'BEGIN { while (1) print i++ }' |sed 5q

> While at it, 'pr -tn' is another line-numbering command.

so is awk :)

    print -l {a..c} | awk -vi=${1-0} '{print i++,$0}'

regards
marc