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$ wc -l < in.file

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Re^2: one liner - open file and read
by TomDLux (Vicar) on Oct 07, 2010 at 20:26 UTC

    Don't re-direct; wc accepts a filename argument, or a list of filenames.

    wc -l in.file
# also check out when multiple files match the pattern ... 
wc *.dat

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    As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

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      I know what wc is capable of.

      Hence the redirect.

      Run it with and without the redirect, and compare it to the output of the OP.

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        Thank you for that! I didn't know about that trick.
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