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. Thank you so much file ==== adrian alice Patrick file B ====== adrian alice Patrick