cat file-name | wc -l On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jay Barbee wrote: > Hey all, > > I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records > (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save > the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. > > Thanks, > --Jay > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > >