How to count lines fast?

Question

I tried unxutils\' wc -l but it crashed for 1GB files. I tried this C# code

long count = 0;
using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(f))
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Answer 1

Are you just looking for a tool to count lines in a file, and efficiently? If so, try MS LogParser

Something like below will give you number of lines:

LogParser "SELECT count(*) FROM file" -i:TEXTLINE