lcnt(USP)

Name

lcnt : Counts lines (rows)

Synopsis

Usage   : lcnt [-f] <file> ...

Version : Tue May 23 23:11:25 JST 2017

Edition : 1

Description

Counts the number of lines (records) in the text data input from

the file specified in the argument or standard input.

Example 1

(Original Data)

$ cat data

0000000 Smith______ 50 F 91 59 20 76 54

0000001 Jones______ 50 F 46 39 8  5 21

0000003 Wilson_____ 26 F 30 50 71 36 30

0000004 Drake______ 40 M 58 71 20 10 6

0000005 Hawking____ 50 F 82 79 16 21 80

0000007 Newton_____ 42 F 50 2  33 15 62

$ lcnt data

6

Example 2

Count the number of lines (records) in multiple files at once.

(Original Data 1)

$ cat data1

1 file1

2 file1

3 file1

(Original Data 2)

$ cat data2

1 file2

2 file2

(Original Data 3)

$ cat data3

1 file3

2 file3

3 file3

4 file3

$ lcnt data1 data2 data3

3

2

4

Example 3

If you use the -f option the file name and line count are both

output.

$ lcnt -f data1 data2 data3

data1 3

data2 2

data3 4

Comment

If you specify - as the file name, the command reads standard input.

$ cat data2 | lcnt -f data1 - data3