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How to count the lines of a file?

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How to get the number of lines in a file?

I.e. for a file like this:

Line one
Line 2
Final line

I would like to do something like this:

$ count-lines /path/to/the/file/above
3

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I think the typical way to do this uses wc ("word count") with the -l ("lines") option.

$ wc -l /path/to/file
    47 /path/to/file

$ wc -l </path/to/file
47

$ cat /path/to/file | wc -l
47

wc with no options prints the number of lines, words, and bytes, but -l can limit it to just lines. As a comment notes: "lines" is the number of newline characters, so you may be off-by-one if you don't have a trailing newline.

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