From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ralph Corderoy Message-ID: <1064.3f2242e3.bedc3@blake.inputplus.co.uk> References: <8094c5486230a87031c84cbcb873866c@vitanuova.com>, <5d6d2e6816f4cad3c83e828f8683e9ab@collyer.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] text utility Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:47:55 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 06f29c9a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi Geoff, > awk '{print NR, $0}' | sort -nr | sed 's/^[0-9]+ //' That's what I use, except `cat -n' instead of having awk deal with each line. Cheers, -- Ralph Corderoy. http://inputplus.co.uk/ralph/ http://troff.org/