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

As others said wc -l is the best solution, but for future reference you can use Perl:

perl -lne 'END { print $. }'

$. contains line number and END block will execute at the end of script.