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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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