> -----Original Message-----
> From: ERIC Lawson - x52010 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: most efficient way to count lines in a file
>
>
> What's the most efficient way to find the total number of
> lines in a file using perl?
>
> Now, I'm using
>
> while (<FILE>) { ++$lincnt; }
That's OK. This also works:
perl -ne 'END { print "$.\n" }' foo
$. is line number (see perldoc perlvar)
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