[TxMt] Re: insert a column of numbers

On 08.10.2013, at 12:53, Ross Ahmed rossahmed@googlemail.com wrote:

Thanks that works fairly well thanks.

I think the number of keystrokes could be reduced however, by for example making a column selection then inserting numbers. Or is this asking too much?!

Allan answered the part about column selection already. Meanwhile, until this stuff is implemented, you could filter your lines through the following command and number them in one go:

nl | awk '{ print $2$1 " " $3 " " substr($4, 0, length($4)-1) $1 """ }’

(Assuming the quoted words in your example are never containing any additional spaces)