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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Subject: Re: Better way to find out the number of lines in a file
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.085037.5863@ericsson.se>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- References: <1992Jul27.195754.26812@tin.monsanto.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:50:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.195754.26812@tin.monsanto.com>, bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz) writes:
- |> 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?
- |>
- |> Thanks
- |>
- |> Brett
- |>
- |> PS
- |>
- |> 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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- You certainly shouldn't use gets or fgets for that matter, use read or
- mmap and count the number of newlines.
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- Michael Salmon
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