> > I always wonder why people insist on doing
> > cat file | otherprogram
> > instead of just
> > otherprogram < file
>
> To qualify for the most useless use of cat award of course. Or does Randall
> Schwartz (sp) no longer hand those out?
But given the original context, "wc -l
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 21:11:59 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I always wonder why people insist on doing
> cat file | otherprogram
> instead of just
> otherprogram < file
To qualify for the most useless use of cat award of course. Or does Randall
Schwartz (sp) no longer hand
> I always wonder why people insist on doing
>
> cat file | otherprogram
>
> instead of just
>
> otherprogram < file
Don't know...
> Which is exactly the same, but saves processing time. Even DOS people
> do this, while DOS doesn't even multitask .. cat file | otherprogram
> is th
*- On 4 Feb, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote about "Re: Counting number of lines
in a text file"
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Diego Delgado Lages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>cat file-name | wc -l
>
> I always wonder why people insi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Diego Delgado Lages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>cat file-name | wc -l
I always wonder why people insist on doing
cat file | otherprogram
instead of just
otherprogram < file
Which is exactly the same, but saves processing time. Even DOS people
Diego Delgado Lages dixit:
>
> cat file-name | wc -l
just tried it and it works, but:
$ wc -l file-name
works as well
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> 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'.
wc -l will do one file. Either write a shell script, or have a look at man
wc
cat file-name | wc -l
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jay Barbee wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> 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'.
>
On 3 Feb, Jay Barbee wrote:
>>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.
replac
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 $
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
Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey all,
>
> 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'.
wc -l
Later,
Dal
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
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