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

Here is another way without so much nesting.

var fs = require('fs');
filePath = process.argv[2];
fileBuffer =  fs.readFileSync(filePath);
to_string = fileBuffer.toString();
split_lines = to_string.split("\n");
console.log(split_lines.length-1);