Re: Counting number of lines in a text file
> 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'.
wc -l will do one file. Either write a shell script, or have a look at man
wc
Matthew
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