Golang : Display a text file line by line with line number example
Problem:
Instead of using cat
or more
commands to display a text file line by line. You want to display the file content line by line with a number for each line in a terminal. You also want to know how many total lines are there in the text file. How to do that?
Solution:
Use this simple Golang program to display the text file content with line number on the right side.
countdisplaylines.go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
"strings"
)
func main() {
if len(os.Args) <= 1 {
fmt.Printf("USAGE : %s <target_filename> \n", os.Args[0])
os.Exit(0)
}
fileName := os.Args[1]
fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(fileName)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
lines := strings.Split(string(fileBytes), "\n")
// remove the last item from the lines slice
// which is empty
lines = lines[:len(lines)-1]
// len() function will count the total number of lines
fmt.Println(fileName, "has a total of", len(lines), "lines")
for i, line := range lines {
// i = i + 1 // uncomment to start from 1 instead of 0
fmt.Println(i, line)
}
}
Sample output:
$ ./countdisplaylines 123.txt
123.txt has a total of 3 lines
0 one
1 two
2 three
content of the
123.txt
file:one
two
three
See also : Golang : Write multiple lines or divide string into multiple lines
By Adam Ng
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