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Old 02-09-2010
count the number of lines that start with the number

I have a file with contents similar to this.

Code:
abcd
1234
4567
7666
jdjdjd
89289
9382
92
jksdj
9823
298

I want to write a shell script which count the number of lines that start with the number (disregard the lines starting with alphabets)
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Old 02-09-2010
Code:
grep -c "^[0-9]" file

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