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Find the total lines in the file hi DW Shell Script Kings 
i have some problem in a step of my assignment.
thats i can read the file with this :
how i can find the total lines which is in this file ??
i mean like this : if the file has student names , it must output like this :
Total students : x
Thanks for helping..
i have some problem in a step of my assignment.
thats i can read the file with this :
#Read all text from file echo -n "Enter file name: " read fileName while read inputline do echo $inputline done < $fileName
how i can find the total lines which is in this file ??
i mean like this : if the file has student names , it must output like this :
Total students : x
Thanks for helping..
Last edited by jamshid : Apr 12th, 2007 at 10:00 am.
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
--Brian Kernighan
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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It's a common error to do:
number_of_lines=`wc -l file_name`
To be precise:
number_of_lines=`wc -l file_name | awk '{print $1}'`
number_of_lines=`wc -l file_name`
To be precise:
number_of_lines=`wc -l file_name | awk '{print $1}'`
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