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

For rows you can simply use wc -l file

-l stands for total line

for columns uou can simply use head -1 file | tr ";" "\n" | wc -l

Explanation
head -1 file
Grabbing the first line of your file, which should be the headers, and sending to it to the next cmd through the pipe
| tr ";" "\n"

tr stands for translate.
It will translate all ; characters into a newline character.
In this example ; is your delimiter.

Then it sends data to next command.

wc -l
Counts the total number of lines.