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# 8  
Old 08-18-2010
why not just use your text editor to do it for you? In the options do you not have a "status line" option or anything? or does it HAVE TO BE a command you want?
# 9  
Old 08-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by j_panky
Of course i did
Code:
wc -l

But this simply got stuck..
Did you really enter the command just like that? If you did, then wc is sitting there patiently waiting for input from stdin, and it will wait forever.

Code:
wc -l filename
cat filename | wc -l

# 10  
Old 08-18-2010
Exactly how big is this file?
Is it a text file with normal unix text file record terminator of line-feed?
It is fixed length records? If so, you can calculate the number of records without counting them.
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