Am 30.04.2010 16:46, schrieb adrian kok:

I have big file as below and would like to know how many line eg: wc -l file but can't figure out how to know

If I type wc -l file, I only get the 1023 but it includes the space When I use cat file | tr -d "\r \n". it gives me "adrian alice......" I need it as fileB and then wc -l fileB.

grep -cv ^$ file

Thank you so much

file

adrian

alice

Patrick

file B

adrian alice Patrick

Regards,

Peter

Hi,

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 07:46 -0700, adrian kok wrote:

Hi all

I have big file as below and would like to know how many line eg: wc -l file but can't figure out how to know

If I type wc -l file, I only get the 1023 but it includes the space When I use cat file | tr -d "\r \n". it gives me "adrian alice......" I need it as fileB and then wc -l fileB.

If those lines between the names are empty lines you might try : cat bigfile | egrep -v '^$' | wc -l

or if you want the names into a second file : cat bigfile | egrep -v '^$' > fileB

Regards,

Michel