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Old 07-02-2009
scottn scottn is offline Forum Advisor  
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Hi.

There may be a better way, but...

Code:
awk 'NF > X { X = NF } END {print X, NR}' my_file
(assumung space as delimeter)

where X is the number of columns and NR is the number of records.

use awk -F to specify a delimeter if it's not a (white)space.