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Re: Read Total lines in an ASCII file [message #33247 is a reply to message #33175] Sun, 15 December 2002 07:16 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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James Kuyper <kuyper@saicmodis.com> wrote:
> wmc@bas.ac.uk wrote:
>> If you are lucky enough to be running under unix, then
>>
>> spawn,'cat filename|wc -l',number_of_lines

> spawn 'wc -l filename', number_of_lines

> would seem like a simpler way to do it.

It would, until you try it ;-) when you'll discover that your
version appends the filename to the line count (if this is *nix
dependent, I retract my sarcasm).

-W.

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