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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:12:26 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gavin Mutch <gmutch@global.co.za>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20011028111226.A13356@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801c15ec8$5434c860$0101a8c0@family>; from gmutch@global.co.za on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:17:38AM %2B0200
References:  <000801c15ec8$5434c860$0101a8c0@family>

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On Saturday, 27 October 2001 at 11:17:38 +0200, Gavin Mutch wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if you could tell me if there is a way to get the
> number of lines of a piece of text, with no other output.  What I
> mean by this is that if you use cat -n file1, you get the number of
> lines but you also get the text.

wc -l is your friend.

Greg
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