Line count of a dos file in kshell


 
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Old 11-30-2016
Line count of a dos file in kshell

dos file in unix environment , now want to get the line count of the file .
Is it possible???/
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Old 11-30-2016
Unless the DOS files don't have spurious (isolated) line feeds embedded, I don't see why wc -l should not work. Did you try it?
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