Re: nl command line option not recognized

[Emmanuel Dumont]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> echo filename.*.* | xargs nl --starting-line-number=2
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> will proceed to chunk your listing into the fewest number of necessary
> processes, although you will then have to deal with the fact that each
> instance of nl starts its numbering over again.  And by using echo (a
> shell builtin) instead of ls (an external process), you are using one less
> process.  But that does not deal with newlines in the glob, so you may
> want to use GNU findutils, and:
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> find -maxdepth 1 -name 'filename.*.*' -print0 \
>  | xargs -0 nl --starting-line-number=2
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you definitely need a pipe after the xargs cmd, otherwise a lot of 
binary garbage is output.
But btw, that cmd does not do what I want (even with added pipe) since 
it lists all files (unsorted) on one line instead of one file per line.

/bin/ls  turntable_render.*.*   |  xargs -0  |  nl --starting-line-number=2

that one is fine

emmanuel