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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Better way to find out the number of lines in a file
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.203700.5953@news.eng.convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- References: <1992Jul27.195754.26812@tin.monsanto.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:37:00 GMT
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- From the keyboard of bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz):
- :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?
- :
- :The files are big so I don't really want to do a gets loop with a counter
- :unless I have to.
-
- Well, SOMEBODY has to do it!
-
- --tom
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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