[vox-tech] adding line numbers to an HTML file

[Micah Cowan]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 14:23 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> wondering if there is a simple way to add line numbers to every non-html tag 
> in a webpage:
> 
> here is a dirty hack that does not work very well:
> 
> lynx -source http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/319/print | 
> cat -n > test.html
> 
> or - if there is a way to add line numbers to non-tag data, similar to how the 
> paste (http://rafb.net/paste/) service works. 
> 
> any ideas would be very helpful!
> 

The link you show doesn't seem to distinguish "tag data", and it's
really not clear to me exactly what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps
if you could post a short "before-and-after" example?

Depending on what you want, Perl or Python--or possibly even just
awk--should be able to meet your needs, but I can't really give you a
solution until I understand the problem properly :)

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Micah J. Cowan
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