Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 19:07:00 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Kevin Neal <Kevin.Neal@sas.com> Cc: "'brian@FreeBSD.org'" <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/27078: FreeBSD lacks nl Message-ID: <20010504190659.A11731@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <0632CC5F67853B4D96D542BAE8AD00826689C6@merc08.na.sas.com>; from Kevin.Neal@sas.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:51:23PM -0400 References: <0632CC5F67853B4D96D542BAE8AD00826689C6@merc08.na.sas.com>
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On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:51:23PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Kevin Neal remarked > > Did you, perchance, read the man page for nl? > > NAME > nl - line numbering filter > > SYNOPSIS > nl [-p] [-b type] [-d delim] [-f type] [-h type] [-i incr] [-l num] > [-n format] [-s sep] [-v startnum] [-w width] [file] Does it actually do anything that pr(1) doesn't? FWIW, I don't have a huge problem with sticking it in the dist, even it a lot of the functionality is duplicated, for portability reasons, but ir pr(1) does everything nl(1) does, wouldn't it be better to just implement nl as a front-end to pr? -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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