From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] sed From: nigel@9fs.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:58:16 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 44281930-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Good if you want colons! > i always used: > grep -n '^' file1 > file2 > > but that's just me, i guess.