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

wc -l file_name

for eg: wc -l file.txt

it will give you the total number of lines in that file

for getting last line use tail -1 file_name