Prints line numbers using grep command

You can get line number's of a file using grep command.

Syntax

 grep -n "^" <filename>

Example

 grep -n "^" tags.txt

OUTPUT

 1:<html> 
 2:<head> </head>
 3:<title> </title>
 4:<body> 
 5:</body>
 6:
 7:</html>

The above command will also count the blank lines and prints the result as above.

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