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From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
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Gavin,
1) please don't use HTML emails.
2) please put a meaningful subject line on your emails.

>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.

>Thanx
>Gavin

wc is your friend.  man wc for more info.

for the number of lines ONLY:
# wc -l /etc/passwd | awk '{print $1}'

Patrick.


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