Calculating the number of lines in a file?
Solution 1:
Use the tool wc.
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To count the number of lines:
-lwc -l myfile.sh -
To count the number of words:
-wwc -w myfile.sh
See man wc for more options.
Solution 2:
As mentioned by souravc, you can use wc for this:
$ wc -w statusToFiles.sh
10 statusToFiles.sh
$ wc -l statusToFiles.sh
6 statusToFiles.sh
To only display the count itself, you can pipe that output to awk, like this:
$ wc -l statusToFiles.sh | awk '{ print $1 }'
6
...or as kos mentioned below:
$ < statusToFiles.sh wc -l
6