Replace the first word of every line in a file with the line number
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If I have a file like this:
foo bar
bar foo
5 foo
bar 5
and I want to change the file to look like this:
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
How can I go about doing this?
text-processing sed
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
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If I have a file like this:
foo bar
bar foo
5 foo
bar 5
and I want to change the file to look like this:
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
How can I go about doing this?
text-processing sed
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
41.3k1056131
asked Jan 24 at 1:09
ComfyComfy
31
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If I have a file like this:
foo bar
bar foo
5 foo
bar 5
and I want to change the file to look like this:
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
How can I go about doing this?
text-processing sed
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
41.3k1056131
asked Jan 24 at 1:09
ComfyComfy
31
If I have a file like this:
foo bar
bar foo
5 foo
bar 5
and I want to change the file to look like this:
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
How can I go about doing this?
text-processing sed
text-processing sed
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
41.3k1056131
asked Jan 24 at 1:09
ComfyComfy
31
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
41.3k1056131
asked Jan 24 at 1:09
ComfyComfy
31
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
41.3k1056131
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
41.3k1056131
edited Jan 24 at 1:44
Jeff Schaller
41.3k1056131
41.3k1056131
asked Jan 24 at 1:09
ComfyComfy
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asked Jan 24 at 1:09
ComfyComfy
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asked Jan 24 at 1:09
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How about Awk?
$ awk '$1 = FNR 1' file
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
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How about Awk?
$ awk '$1 = FNR 1' file
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
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How about Awk?
$ awk '$1 = FNR 1' file
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
answered Jan 24 at 1:15
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How about Awk?
$ awk '$1 = FNR 1' file
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
answered Jan 24 at 1:15
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How about Awk?
$ awk '$1 = FNR 1' file
1 bar
2 foo
3 foo
4 5
answered Jan 24 at 1:15
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answered Jan 24 at 1:15
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answered Jan 24 at 1:15
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