Re: Count lines
Re: Count lines
- Subject: Re: Count lines
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:28:13 -0700
Entity Andrew T. Lynch spoke thus:
> cat /SystemProfile.txt | wc -l
This may be a poor choice for large files. I believe there's a size limit on
shell commands which is why working with the text file is best. I seem to
recall Panther upped the limit to 65k but could be wrong.
-- Gnarlie
> On Nov 12, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
>> In this particular case, all I want is the number of lines, not the
>> file
>> name which wc -l adds on to the end. I guess you could remove that
>> with a
>> grep. Gnarlodius sent me:
>>
>> do shell script "sed -n '$=' /SystemProfile.txt"
>>
>>
>> which works perfectly. (In fact it gives the answer "1" when there's a
>> Mac
>> file with no LFs. whereas wc -l says the answer is "0", which is
>> interesting.)
>>
>> --
>> Paul Berkowitz
>>
>>
>>> From: Courtney Schwartz <email@hidden>
>>> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:30:19 -0500
>>> To: AppleScript User's List <email@hidden>
>>> Subject: Re: Count lines
>>>
>>> Here here for wc! Wish you could run that from TextEdit using
>>> Services
>>> menu or something. I think it's kind of weird, actually, given the
>>> other Unix utilities that OS X makes use of, that it doesn't seem to
>>> use wc... So In the meanwhile, I:
>>>
>>> 1) Open Terminal.
>>> 2) Type
>>>
>>> wc -l /folder/file.txt
>>>
>>> and then press return.
>>>
>>> Or run a bash script on a set of text files. Or run an AppleScript
>>> with
>>> a 'do script' if you want.
>>>
>>> Courtney Schwartz
>>>
>>> On Nov 12, 2004, at 4:05 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>>>
>>>> wc -l
>>>>
>>>> *****************************************
>>>> Mark E. Napier
>>>> Manager of Information Systems
>>>> School of Library and Information Science
>>>> Indiana University
>>>> ******************************************
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, John C. Welch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/12/2004 14:37, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the simplest way to count unix lines of a text file?
>>>>>
>>>>> Use BBEdit
>>>>>
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>>>>> Stupid ascii Unnecessary notice of
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