How to count lines in a document?

Question

I have lines like these, and I want to know how many lines I actually have...

09:16:39 AM  all    2.00    0.00    4.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.0         


        

Answer 1

If all you want is the number of lines (and not the number of lines and the stupid file name coming back):

wc -l < /filepath/filename.ext

As previously mentioned these also work (but are inferior for other reasons):

awk 'END{print NR}' file       # not on all unixes
sed -n '$=' file               # (GNU sed) also not on all unixes
grep -c ".*" file              # overkill and probably also slower