What is the command to make less display line numbers in the left column?
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From the manual:
-N or --LINE-NUMBERS Causes a line number to be displayed at the beginning of each line in the display.
You can also toggle line numbers without quitting less by typing -N.
It is possible to toggle any of less's command line options in this way.
You could filter the file through cat -n before piping to less:
cat -n file.txt | less
Or, if your version of less supports it, the -N option:
less -N file.txt
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