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Old 05-20-2013
Get the no. of lines in a text file
Is there any work around to get no. lines in a text file and cut by total of 2 lines per file or whatever input parameter of command.

so for ei. this file
Code:
cat file1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Code:
filename output is incremental look like this:
linefile.txt  
1_linefile.txt
2_linefile.txt
3_linefile.txt

and if I cat linefile.txt should look like this:
1
2
and if I cat 3_linefile.txt should look like this:
7

Last edited by lxdorney; 05-21-2013 at 12:43 AM..
# 2  
Old 05-20-2013
Try:
Code:
wc -l

# 3  
Old 05-20-2013
sorry my post earlier is not complete

tahnks for the reply

---------- Post updated at 09:07 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:33 AM ----------

anybody have an Idea to solve this?
# 4  
Old 05-20-2013
I see you want to split your input file into 2 lines per output file.

But your script doesn't make any sense. I don't see any step in your script which is trying to do this!

You can simply run a split command to achieve this:
Code:
split --lines=2 inputfile

# 5  
Old 05-21-2013
yes to split
thanks for the Idea
 
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