A simple awk line will add line numbers of prescribed field length to any file:

awk '{printf "\%3d \%s\n", NR, $0}' < myfile.txt

Use '\%.3d' to zero-pad the line numbers.

Apr 06, 2005

linenumbers (/progtricks)
2005-04-06, 19:38 [edit]

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