Count lines and use if then ksh

Hi all,

I have a tab-delimited text file of size 10Mb. I am trying to count the number of lines using,

Code: grep -c . sample.txt or

Code: wc -l < sample.txt or

Code: awk 'END {print NR}'  sample.txt All these commands shows the count as 1, which means they are reading only the first header line of the file.

Hello All,

I got a requirement when I was working with a file. Say the file has unloads of data from a table in the form

Code: 1|121|asda|434|thesi|2012|05|24| 1|343|unit|09|best|2012|11|5| I was put into a scenario where I need the field count in all the lines in that file.

I am trying to count number of record in a file and then append a trailer to that file.

Trailer should e in the format as below T| <count of records>

count of records ---> this count should be one less than the actual count obtained, as the file will have a header.

Hello,

Currently I have:

Code: FILE=/home/file.txt

if [ -f $FILE ]; then   echo "File $FILE exists" else   echo "File $FILE does not exist" fi exit I would like to make it such that if the file *does* exist, it performs a wc -l count of the file and then if the count is greater than 3 performs some command....how do I integrate the second if comma

Hi Everybody I want to write a script to count the number of lines in a file that don't ahve any thing on it, the free lines, i try to do it with fgrep "" which means to grep on the spaces but it does not work. help me please?

Code: /bin/sed -n ';4757335,$ p' | wc -l /bin/sed -n ';4757335,$ p' | egrep "Failed" | egrep -c "PM late arrrival"

how can i combine the above two sed commands into one? i want to count the number of lines between the specified line number and the end of the file.

Hi All,

i am taking end of records using tail command got the out is "END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 10" and record count in the file is 3. while append the both data into test2.txt file,it's append like

Code: END OF FILE. ROW COUNT: 108 my output should be in the test2.txt file

Code: END OF FILE.

All,

I am new to shell scripting and trying to get the count of files that starts with error and with extension .out, if the count is greater than 0 and zip the file and send an email with the content of error.out file, here is my script

Code: cd /temp testcount =$('find .

I know of course that

cat logfile.txt | wc -l 120

will tell me the number of lines in a file.

Whereas

tail -f logfile.txt

will show me the new lines that another program writes to logfile.txt.

Is it possible to combine both so that I get a continuous updating line count of logfile.txt with standard text utilities?

I do know about

watch wc -l logfile.txt

but I do not want to re-count th