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Old 10-09-2009
Count of Number of Lines in a File
Dear Members,

I want to count the number of lines in a file; for that i am using the following command :

FILE_LINE_COUNT=`wc -l $INT_IN/$RAW_FILE_NAME`

if i do an echo on FILE_LINE_COUNT then i get

241 /home/data/testfile.txt

I don't want the directory path to be displayed. Variable FILE_LINE_COUNT should only contain count of the number of lines which is 241.

How do we do this.

Thanks
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Old 10-09-2009
Wrench
Try:

Code:
FILE_LINE_COUNT=`wc -l < $INT_IN/$RAW_FILE_NAME`

 
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