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.
Change the 'file1 file2 file3' list to '*.txt' for example... -Remco
