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Included the file. Neat trick by the way!

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edited Nov 7, 2014 at 18:35

You can play some trick - first number lines with * only then strip * and spaces if you want

nl -bp^[*] file | sed 's/^\s*\|\s*\*//g'

You can play some trick - first number lines with * only then strip * and spaces if you want

nl -bp^[*] | sed 's/^\s*\|\s*\*//g'

You can play some trick - first number lines with * only then strip * and spaces if you want

nl -bp^[*] file | sed 's/^\s*\|\s*\*//g'

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answered Nov 7, 2014 at 9:24

You can play some trick - first number lines with * only then strip * and spaces if you want

nl -bp^[*] | sed 's/^\s*\|\s*\*//g'