On Fri, 4 May 2001, Susan Richter wrote:

> Can someone tell me what command I can use to go to machines and count the
> lines on a certain file?  I have log files for every machines (20 all
> together).  Each log file has lines that would equate to the files that it
> found.  I need to know how many files are found on all the machines.  I am
> using Perl 5 on NT.

Here's a code snippet to do it:

my $file = $ARGV(0);

open(FILE, "<$file") or die "Could not open $file: $!\n";
my $counter = 0;

while(<FILE>) { $counter++; }

close(FILE);

print "$counter\n";

-- Brett
                                   http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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