Get Total Lines in a File 3

[Michael42]

Hello,

On Sun Solaris 8 using a Bourne shell script I need to set the value of a variable to the total lines contained in a text file.

How can I get the total lines a text file contains?

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[motoslide]

Try:

$ VAR1=`wc -l myfile`

 

[PHV]

One way:
CountOfLines=`nawk 'END{print NR}'` /path/to/file
You may also play with wc -l

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[feherke]

Hi

nr=`grep -c "" /path/to/file`

nr=`sed -n '$=' /path/to/file`

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Michael42]

Thanks all.

Your posts wre very useful.

-Michael42