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Old 07-15-2011
Number of records in a file of a particular directory

Hi All,

I want to find the number of records in a file of a particular directory

I have a file as abcd.txt in the path
var/hr/payments/

I want to find number of records in abcd.txt file in a single command.

I tried the following

cd /var/hr/payments/wc -l abcd.txt

I got the error "ksh: cd: bad argument count"

Please help me to get this.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 07-15-2011
Code:
cd /var/hr/payments/; wc -l abcd.txt

# 3  
Old 07-15-2011
cat /var/hr/payments/abcd.txt | wc -l
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Old 07-15-2011
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cat /var/hr/payments/abcd.txt | wc -l
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# 5  
Old 07-19-2011
Thanks for your help

Could you please help me to print the count as
Number of records in the file abcd is 1122.
Thanks in advance
# 6  
Old 07-19-2011
Code:
awk 'END{print "Number of records in the file " FILENAME " is " NR}' /var/hr/payments/abcd.txt

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