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Shell script to count number of lines in a file

echo Enter the filename
read file
w=`cat $file | wc -w`
c=`cat $file | wc -c`
l=`grep -c "." $file`
echo Number of characters in $file is $c
echo Number of words in $file is $w
echo Number of lines in $file is $l

Source: dailyfreecode.com

Shell count number of lines

$ wc -l < /dir/file.txt
3272485

Source: stackoverflow.com

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