NL(1)

🦋 NL(1) — Number Lines of Files 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for NL(1) — aka the nl command. She is literally here to number lines of files, and she is serving main character energy while doing it. 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

nl — Number lines of files. That’s it, that’s the whole assignment, no cap. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nl [OPTION]... [FILE]...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Number lines of files. Bestie, she numbers lines of files — that’s the vibe check. 🫶

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• --help — Print help information.
• -b, --body-numbering <STYLE> — use STYLE for numbering body lines.
• -d, --section-delimiter <CC> — use CC for separating logical pages.
• -f, --footer-numbering <STYLE> — use STYLE for numbering footer lines.
• -h, --header-numbering <STYLE> — use STYLE for numbering header lines.
• -i, --line-increment <NUMBER> — line number increment at each line.
• -l, --join-blank-lines <NUMBER> — group of NUMBER empty lines counted as one.
• -n, --number-format <FORMAT> — insert line numbers according to FORMAT. Possible values:
  • ln
  • rn
  • rz
• -p, --no-renumber — do not reset line numbers at logical pages.
• -s, --number-separator <STRING> — add STRING after (possible) line number.
• -v, --starting-line-number <NUMBER> — first line number on each logical page.
• -w, --number-width <NUMBER> — use NUMBER columns for line numbers.
• -V, --version — Print version.

🔥 EXTRA 🔥

STYLE is one of:

• a — number all lines
• t — number only nonempty lines
• n — number no lines
• pBRE — number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular expression, BRE

FORMAT is one of:

• ln — left justified, no leading zeros
• rn — right justified, no leading zeros
• rz — right justified, leading zeros

👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🫶 That’s the nl(1) tea, bestie — source/version v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, date 2026-09-17. Mwah 💋