How can I prepend a line number and tab to each line of a text file?

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How can I append a line number and tab to the beginning of each line of a text file?

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Fix for: How can I prepend a line number and tab to each line of a text file?

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The nl command should do this, but it adds space before the line number too. It's part of Linux coreutils.

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