5 Ways to Count the Number of Lines in a File | Linux Today

5 Ways to Count the Number of Lines in a File

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Sarvottam Kumar
Jun 30, 2021

On Linux, you can do a single task in several ways. For example, if you want to count the number of lines in single or multiple files, you can use different commands. In this article, I’ll share five different ways you can use to print a total number of lines in a large file.

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Sarvottam Kumar

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