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How to get number of lines from a file into a shell variable [message #98128]

Fri, 19 March 2004 11:16

Swamy
Messages: 78
Registered: June 2002

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To get number of lines from a data file into a shell variable, I wrote as below in my shell script.

$countlines=`wc -l datafile.dat`

$echo countlines=$countlines

The result I am getting is:

$countlines=�� 4567 datafile.dat

�� I need only the number 4567 as output, but not with the string datafile.dat. How can I achieve? I appreciate in advance for your help.

Thanks

Raj

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Re: How to get number of lines from a file into a shell variable [message #98129 is a reply to message #98128]

Sat, 20 March 2004 14:10

William Robertson
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Registered: August 2003
Location: London, UK

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Two suggestions (both ksh):

/Users/williamr: set -A l $(wc -l zz)
/Users/williamr: print ${l[0]}
12
/Users/williamr: print ${l[1]}
zz

/Users/williamr: l=$(wc -l zz)       
/Users/williamr: print $l            
12 zz
/Users/williamr: l=${l% *}
/Users/williamr: print $l 
12

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Re: How to get number of lines from a file into a shell variable [message #98130 is a reply to message #98129]

Sat, 20 March 2004 14:24

Swamy
Messages: 78
Registered: June 2002

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I got it and thank you so much for the help.

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Re: How to get number of lines from a file into a shell variable [message #98615 is a reply to message #98129]

Tue, 01 February 2005 21:09

zen
Messages: 3
Registered: June 2004

Junior Member

Another method,

typeset -i a=1
while read line
do
a=$a+1
done

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Re: How to get number of lines from a file into a shell variable [message #98616 is a reply to message #98615]

Tue, 01 February 2005 21:24

Jai Vrat Singh
Messages: 205
Registered: September 2002
Location: Singapore

Senior Member

lines=`wc -l filename | sed -e 's/[[ t]][[ t]]*/~/g'|cut -d'~' -f2`

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Re: How to get number of lines from a file into a shell variable - me again [message #98617 is a reply to message #98616]

Tue, 01 February 2005 22:29

Jai Vrat Singh
Messages: 205
Registered: September 2002
Location: Singapore

Senior Member

line=`awk ' END { print NR } ' filename`
echo lines are $line

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