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

This drop-in portable shell function [ℹ]  works like a charm. Just add the following snippet to your .bashrc file (or the equivalent for your shell environment).

# ---------------------------------------------
#  Count lines in a file
#
#  @1 = path to file
#
#  EXAMPLE USAGE: `count_file_lines $HISTFILE`
# ---------------------------------------------
count_file_lines() {
    local subj=$(wc -l $1)
    subj="${subj//$1/}"
    echo ${subj//[[:space:]]}
}

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This should be fully compatible with all POSIX-compliant shells in addition to bash and zsh.