On May 4, Brett W. McCoy said:
>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.
>
>my $counter = 0;
>while(<FILE>) { $counter++; }
In fact, no counter variable is needed. Perl supplies the $. variable,
which holds the line number of the most recently read line.
1 while <FILE>;
print $.;
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