Node.js: Count the number of lines in a file

Question

I have large text files, which range between 30MB and 10GB. How can I count the number of lines in a file using Node.js?

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Answer 1

You could do this as the comments suggest using wc

var exec = require('child_process').exec;

exec('wc /path/to/file', function (error, results) {
    console.log(results);
});