Re: How To Count Lines In File?

In the spirit of TIMTOWTDI

perl -e 'print @{[<>]}.$/' some_file_here
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HTH

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Re^2: How To Count Lines In File? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 27, 2003 at 16:07 UTC
You slurp the file though - and you still pay the read-line-by-line penalty. Here's one that slurps as well but counts using `tr`. `$ perl -lp0777e'$_=tr/\n//' foo` [download] Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]