hi,

well this maybe redundant but i'm curious. is there a way to do this from a command line: 

open (IN, "<", $ARGV[0]);
my $i =0;
while (<IN>){$i++}
print $i;

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so what i'm aiming for is the result of this :

perl -e 'open(IN,"<", $ARGV[0]);$i=0;while(<IN>){$i++};print $i' in.fi
+le

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but without open(IN,"<", $ARGV[0]); and while. i would like just to say what want and that iteration is assumed so :
perl -ne '$i++; print $i' in.file

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so the question is how to preserve the $i in 

perl -ne '$i++; print $i' in.file

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and print it when iterator reaches the end of the file

something like in awk but in all mighty Perl way !!!!

thnx

baxy

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