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Name: Bill
Date: July 25, 2002 at 11:48:32 Pacific
Subject: awk help

Comment:

I need to use a counter for some output from an awk command...I have a file with two lines in it and I want the contents of these lines preceded by a number...For example:
1. Blue tube
2. Red stick
etc...
Please help!!

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Response Number 1

Name: Anthony
Date: July 26, 2002 at 04:27:45 Pacific
Subject: awk help

Reply: (edit)

Try:
awk 'i=i+1 {print i " " $0}' i=0 filename

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Response Number 2

Name: Frank
Date: August 13, 2002 at 07:15:12 Pacific
Subject: awk help

Reply: (edit)

or just
awk ' { print FNR,$0 } ' filename
no RISK no fun
Frank

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Response Number 3

Name: Bill
Date: August 19, 2002 at 03:59:21 Pacific
Subject: awk help

Reply: (edit)

The FNR option works well Frank, thanks for the suggestion...Now how do I reference the number that was placed there...In other words, if I ask the user for an input to choose one of two options
For example:
1-Red
2-Blue
How do I associate them choosing option 1 with what I want to do?? There could possibly be 8 lines in the file so there would be 1-8 options...I can't possibly code for this using the case statement unless there is a variable I can reference...
Hope you can help...
Bill Hubbard

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