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Old 09-12-2010
Shell to detect the end of file
Hi.

I'm not UNIX expert, I need to do a shell to read a sequential file and show in the console the record numbers read, until the end of file.

The reason of this shell is to be sure if the file is not corrupt.

Thanks
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Old 09-12-2010
Sounds like homework...
Code:
# count the lines
wc -l filename
# count and display the lines
nl filename
# just display the lines
cat filename
# count the bytes in the file
wc -c filename

To detect file corruption, use one of the utilities like cksum, md5, sha1, etc. That is what they are meant for.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 09-12-2010 at 10:19 AM..
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