RE: Lines in a text file

["Bill Trippe" <btrippe -at- nmpub -dot- com>]

Dan Goldstein wrote:

>
> Does anyone know of a way to count the lines in a text file
> without opening
> it? I'm familiar with Word's line-counting ability, but I don't think that
> that will help in this case.
>

Hi Dan,

This is probably too long a distance for you to travel, but if it is truly a
text file (not a binary) and you can get it on a UNIX or LINUX box, the wc
command does exactly this.  It would follow the syntax:

wc -l (filename)

It would return the number of lines.

There are UNIX shells you can run on top of Windows.  See, for example,
Cygwin.

http://www.cygwin.com/

If you have a need to do this kind of thing often and need to continue using
Windows (as I do), it is probably worth running something like Cygwin.

Hope this helps!

Bill


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