[Toybox] Looking at nl
Terrel Shumway
pythonista466 at gmail.com
Sat May 25 21:08:51 PDT 2013
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:36 PM, <idunham at lavabit.com> wrote:
> I thought I'd look at what nl takes, since it's not much more than
> looping over some lines, incrementing, and formatting the output.
> The POSIX reference page is:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/nl.html
An awk wizard could do that in less than a dozen lines. Since awk is
already supposed to be in the toybox, why not write nl as a script?
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but when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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