Add numbers to the beginning of every line in a file

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Don’t use cat or any other tool which is not designed to do that. Use the program:

nl – number lines of files

Example:

$ nl --number-format=rz --number-width=9 foobar
$ nl -n rz -w 9 foobar # short-hand

Because nl is made for it 😉

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