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- From: bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Better way to find out the number of lines in a file
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.195754.26812@tin.monsanto.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:57:54 GMT
- Sender: news@tin.monsanto.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Monsanto Company
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- This is kind of similar to the how many files in a directory question, but
- is there a trick to find the number of lines in a file?
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- Thanks
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- Brett
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- PS
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- The files are big so I don't really want to do a gets loop with a counter
- unless I have to.
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