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Re^4: Count number of lines in a text file

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Aug 14, 2009 at 17:40 UTC ( [id://788708]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Count number of lines in a text file
in thread Count number of lines in a text file

But this works:

So does this--but efficiently enough tha you can use it on huge files:)

c:\test>perl -ne"}{print$." junk.out 20000001

It actually beats wc -l on my system.


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