Calculating the number of lines in a file?

How would I calculate and display the number of lines and words that are contained in a .sh file?

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4 Answers

Use the tool wc.

• To count the number of lines: -l

  wc -l myfile.sh

• To count the number of words: -w

  wc -w myfile.sh

See man wc for more options.

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As mentioned by souravc, you can use wc for this:

$ wc -w statusToFiles.sh
10 statusToFiles.sh
$ wc -l statusToFiles.sh
6 statusToFiles.sh

To only display the count itself, you can pipe that output to awk, like this:

$ wc -l statusToFiles.sh | awk '{ print $1 }'
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...or as kos mentioned below:

$ < statusToFiles.sh wc -l
6

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You can use grep command with blank matching string

grep "" -c file_path

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You can also output the entire file with line numbers in front of every line using the command below:

cat -n myfile 

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