I want to use nl command to do numbering for lines. Is it possible to set line-increment in nl command to a float number.
I know that we cant use -i switch to set line-increment like this:
$ cat test | nl -i 2 1 #! /bin/bash 3 for dir in dir1 dir2 5 do
but it doesn’t work for float numbers like:
$ cat test | nl -i 0.1 nl: invalid line number increment: ‘0.1’
I want the output to be like this
1 #! /bin/bash 1.1 for dir in dir1 dir2 1.2 do
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Answer
Could use awk instead
awk '{print 0.9+(x=x+.1) FS $0}' file
With padding (up to 99999 lines, for more add higher number in printf)
awk '{printf "%-7.1f%sn",0.9+(x=x+.1),$0}'