From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num?
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 07:20:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_Q_5QKfevyWQ_Rq6kHtA-sfA_GHHcqhALN1EfqZOQNiSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W6nJiAigZj_OHB0nYmE7izsB1t5af5ZZKDVxGu1hjsDNA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 7:03 AM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> It may be worth noting that BSD had `cat -n` in 4BSD by October, 1980:
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4BSD/usr/man/man1/cat.1
>
> That may explain the relatively late incorporation of `nl` in, at least,
> the BSD lineage.
>
An obvious approach, which would leave no real traces in documentation,
would be:
$ awk '{print NR, $0}'
A more precise emulation would be more of a pain to type:
$ awk '{printf("%6d\t%s\n", NR, $0)}'
but perfectly usable in a script.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-23 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-23 2:57 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23 5:56 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2022-07-23 7:55 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23 11:01 ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 11:20 ` John Cowan [this message]
2022-07-23 12:00 ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 12:49 ` Norman Wilson
2022-07-23 13:20 ` Rob Pike
2022-07-23 13:36 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-07-23 14:33 ` John Cowan
2022-07-24 19:45 ` Warner Losh
2022-07-24 20:33 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-24 21:04 ` Warner Losh
2022-07-23 17:35 ` Clem Cole
2022-07-23 18:40 ` Phil Budne
2022-07-23 18:51 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-07-23 19:07 ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-07-24 19:02 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28 0:30 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28 1:03 ` Phil Budne
2022-07-28 4:13 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29 4:28 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-07-29 5:07 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-08-09 5:12 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2022-08-09 6:11 ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 13:34 ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 15:15 ` Andrew Hume
2022-08-09 18:26 ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 18:52 ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 21:25 ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 15:39 ` Richard Salz
2022-08-09 13:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 16:45 ` William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29 0:22 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and progeny [Was: Re: Re: Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num?] Stuff Received
2022-07-29 5:01 ` [TUHS] " Charles H. Sauer
2022-07-29 14:07 ` John Cowan
2022-07-29 15:37 ` Dave Plonka
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