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Old 12-19-2007
How to find number of lines in a file
Hi

How do I find number of lines of a file? Below commands returned 0. But, the file is showing 20 lines when I open it in editplus tool. Each line contains 601 columns. Please advise

I want to incorporate some word at the begining of each of those 20 lines

-Somesh


$ wc -l < ./somesh_test
0
$ cat ./somesh_test |wc -l
0
$ ls -ltr somesh_test
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwapps edw 11419 Dec 19 16:07 somesh_test
$ file somesh_test
somesh_test: ascii text
# 2  
Old 12-19-2007
just type

wc -l somesh_test
# 3  
Old 12-19-2007
I suspect it's one line without an end of line character at the end.
What happens if you run it through head -1? Do you get the whole thing?
Also try wc (without the -l).
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