Re: Better way to find out the number of lines in a file

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:37

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From the keyboard of bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz):
:This is kind of similar to the how many files in a directory question, but
:is there a trick to find the number of lines in a file?
:
:The files are big so I don't really want to do a gets loop with a counter
:unless I have to.

Well, SOMEBODY has to do it!  

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist


Emacs is a fine operating system, but I still prefer UNIX. -me

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