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i ve got a file with 100 of text lines and many occurrences.
How can i search and display them all nummbered?

E,g:

1) bla bla bla
2) fortij nfhru
3)fhdgfhdiwe

P.s i do not want to get rid of them just output them and redirect them in another file.

There must be a way to do it without using sed or awk isn it?

Thnx

Do you just need the count of how many times each line appears? In that case I think you want to do

It sounds like you just want to print the file with line numbers? In which case I believe cat will do that.



I could be wrong. I don't have access to a linux terminal right now to check.

If you want to find each string in the file and list them with line numbers then...

sort -u <filename> | cat -n

BTW, uniq only works on successive duplicate lines. In other words, uniq would not work for



But it would work for


Using sort with the -u flag will sort the file first so that it is in the correct order, like the second example above, then run it through unique.

You can go one step further with this.

sort <file> | uniq -c | cat -n

This would print the line number, followed by the number of occurences in the files of a particular string, followed by the string itself.

--SS

Thnx guys very helpful!!!!!

Look at this please!!!

[ciro.ruggiero@unix ~]$ grep $USER xx | cat -n
1 USER=ciro.ruggiero
2 MAIL=/var/spool/mail/ciro.ruggiero
3 PATH=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/ciro.ruggiero/bin
4 PWD=/home/ciro.ruggiero
5 HOME=/home/ciro.ruggiero
6 LOGNAME=ciro.ruggiero

This is almost what i wanted...how do i put a bracket after the numbers?
eg:
1)
2)

also...if i want to get rid of line 3 completaly, how doi do it?

ciro25 wrote:

Thnx guys very helpful!!!!!

Look at this please!!!

[ciro.ruggiero@unix ~]$ grep $USER xx | cat -n
1 USER=ciro.ruggiero
2 MAIL=/var/spool/mail/ciro.ruggiero
3 PATH=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/ciro.ruggiero/bin
4 PWD=/home/ciro.ruggiero
5 HOME=/home/ciro.ruggiero
6 LOGNAME=ciro.ruggiero

This is almost what i wanted...how do i put a bracket after the numbers?
eg:
1)
2)

also...if i want to get rid of line 3 completaly, how doi do it?

grep $USER xx | cat -n | sed "s/\(\s*[0-9]*\)\(\s*\)/\1)\2/"

As for getting ride of line three, do you want to always get rid of the third line or always get rid of PATH, which in this example happens to be line 3? Look into "grep -v".

--SS