Jay Barbee wrote: > 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'. for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ echo -n $a >> seperate_file; \ echo -n ":::" >> seperate_file; \ wc -l $a >> seperate_file; \ done HTH, -Remco