How do I count the number of rows and columns in a file using bash?

Question

Say I have a large file with many rows and many columns. I\'d like to find out how many rows and columns I have using bash.

Answer 1

If counting number of columns in the first is enough, try the following:

awk -F'\t' '{print NF; exit}' myBigFile.tsv

where \t is column delimiter.