How to insert a counter into a Stream .forEach()?

You can use an AtomicInteger as a mutable final counter.

public void test() throws IOException {
    // Make sure the writer closes.
    try (FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("OutFile.txt") ) {
        // Use AtomicInteger as a mutable line count.
        final AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger();
        // Make sure the stream closes.
        try (Stream<String> lines = Files.lines(Paths.get("InFile.txt"))) {
            lines.forEach(line -> {
                        try {
                            // Annotate with line number.
                            writer.write(count.incrementAndGet() + " # " + line + System.lineSeparator());
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }
            );
        }
    }
}