Extracting the line number in Unix Shell?

Aziz · 12-01-2004, 10:36 AM

Lets say I have a file that contains:

A
B
C
D
F

I want to find out the line number of D lets say, which will come out to 4 and 5 for F...

How would I do that..

I tried to do it with awk and didnt work, because the pattern must be static..

Thnx alot people,

crabboy · 12-01-2004, 10:50 AM

Code:

grep -n "^D" filename

The -n tells grep to return the line number the pattern was found on. The ^ character says that the D must be on the beginning of the line.

Aziz · 12-01-2004, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by crabboy

Code:

grep -n "^D" filename

The -n tells grep to return the line number the pattern was found on. The ^ character says that the D must be on the beginning of the line.

I will try something like

grep -n "D" filename

Since it can be anywhere at the line..

Thanks Alot Bro.. appreciate it..

Peace,