Count number of lines in a file - Linux

 

There are different ways to count number of lines in a file.

I will show the some of commands to count number files in file.

With wc:

$ wc -l <inutFileName>

Counting number of lines with wc -l is most common and popular way.

With awk:

$ awk 'END{ print NR }' <inutFileName>

With sed:

$ sed -n '$=' <inutFileName>

With grep:

$ grep -c "" <inutFileName>

-Sany

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