WC command of mac showing one less result

Question

I have a text file which has over 60MB size. It has got entries in 5105043 lines, but when I am doing wc -l it is giving only 5105042 results which is one less than actual.

Answer 1

60 MB seems a bit big file but for small size files. One option could be

cat -n file.txt

OR

cat -n sample.txt | cut -f1 | tail -1