nl(1)

💖 nl(1) — the manual page for nl 💖

bestie, it's the nl(1) page, straight out of the General Commands Manual — and yeah it's giving "numbering lines" but make it ✨aesthetic✨. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this.

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✨ NAME ✨

nl — Number lines of files 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nl [--help] [-b|--body-numbering] [-d|--section-delimiter]
[-f|--footer-numbering] [-h|--header-numbering] [-i|--line-increment]
[-l|--join-blank-lines] [-n|--number-format] [-p|--no-renumber]
[-s|--number-separator] [-v|--starting-line-number] [-w|--number-width]
[-V|--version] [file]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Number lines of files. That's it, that's the whole vibe. You give it files, it hands them back with numbers on the lines. Iconic behavior, no notes. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — Print help information. (the classic "bestie I'm lost" button)
• -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

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🦋 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

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👑 VERSION 👑

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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ok so that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 💅 no cap, every single flag is right there waiting for you.

And that's a wrap on nl (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 — mwah, go number some lines, you main character 🧚✨💜