How to count no of lines in text file and store the value into a variable using batch script?

Question

I want to count the no of lines in a text file and then the value has to be stored into a environment variable. The command to count the no of lines is

findstr /R         


        

Answer 1

In the below code, the variable name are SalaryCount and TaxCount

@ECHO OFF    
echo Process started, please wait...    
for /f %%C in ('Find /V /C "" ^< "D:\Trial\Salary.txt"') do set SalaryCount=%%C    
echo Salary,%SalaryCount%
for /f %%C in ('Find /V /C "" ^< "D:\Trial\Tax.txt"') do set TaxCount=%%C
echo Tax,%TaxCount%

Now if you need to output these values to a csv file, you could use the below code.

@ECHO OFF
cd "D:\CSVOutputPath\"
echo Process started, please wait...
echo FILENAME,FILECOUNT> SUMMARY.csv
for /f %%C in ('Find /V /C "" ^< "D:\Trial\Salary.txt"') do set Count=%%C
echo Salary,%Count%>> SUMMARY.csv
for /f %%C in ('Find /V /C "" ^< "D:\Trial\Tax.txt"') do set Count=%%C
echo Tax,%Count%>> SUMMARY.csv

The > will overwrite the existing content of the file and the >> will append the new data to existing data. The CSV will be generated in D:\CSVOutputPath