At 2/3/99 04:03 PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote: >Jay Barbee wrote: >> I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records >> (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save >> the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. > >for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ > echo -n $a >> seperate_file; \ > echo -n ":::" >> seperate_file; \ > wc -l $a >> seperate_file; \ >done
How would I gather a list of all TXT files in the directory before this and pass each file to this script. Thanks for your help --Jay
