in reply to Re: How To Count Lines In File?
in thread How To Count Lines In File?

Hi ,

The code you have here, does it work only in Unix , I got the contents of the file in WINDOWS instead of showing the number of lines.Please explain if this is for Unix alone or why in windows it acts this way

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Re: Re: Re: How To Count Lines In File?
by ryddler (Monk) on Jan 27, 2003 at 03:45 UTC
    The command shell in windows can't handle the single quotes (') shown in that oneliner. Change them to double quotes (") and it should work for you. 
    perl -lpe "}{*_=*.}{" file

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