ksh help: wanted to add sequential numbers at end of each word

[Hanry Zhou]

I have a file, and there are list of words in it, and each word occupies one line:



Now, I want to add a sequential number at the end of each word(line). Please help me out how do I achive that? Appreciate your help!

aaa 100
bbb 101
ccc 102
ddd 103
....

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

#!/usr/bin/ksh

typeset -i N=100
cat myfile | while read F
do
echo "${F} ${N}"
((N += 1))
done
exit 0

[spex]

Hi Hanry,

$ awk -v i=100 '{print($0,i); i+=1}'
PCS

[Sandman!]

Try the awk construct below:

# awk 'BEGIN{i=100}{print $0,i++}' infile

~cheers

[Dennis Handly]

If you want to number on the left, there is nl(1).