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A Quick Bash Tip: View File Contents With The Line Numbers

Aug 14, 2018 · by Tim Kamanin

Bash tip I've just discovered:

Next time when you do cat command to view file contents, pass the -n parameter and you'll see file source with the line numbers!

Very handy:

bash
cat -n file.whatever

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