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Old 07-02-2009
# of rows and columns
Hi,

Does anyone know the command to know the # of rows and columns for a file?

thanks
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Old 07-02-2009
depends on your 'file' (whatever it is) format.......
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Old 07-02-2009
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.
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Old 07-02-2009
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Originally Posted by kylle345
Hi,

Does anyone know the command to know the # of rows and columns for a file?

thanks
See here(example 9) for example (assuming space separated).
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