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Interestingly -- to me, at least, `nl` by default will only number non-empty lines (coreutils v8.25), whereas `cat` will show all.
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# Number lines given to `nl` via STDIN.
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printf "Here\nis\nsome\nexample\ntext." | nl
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# Number (all) lines given to `nl` via provided file(s).
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nl -b a /path/to/file
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# The above can also be achieved with `cat`, which is perhaps more portable:
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cat -n /path/to/file
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