From: Gosselin, Mark (gosselinm@NETSCOUT.COM)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 07:41:11 EDT
or
grep mystring myfile | wc -l
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Marc Monnez [mailto:monnez.jean-marc@AGORA.MSA.FR]
Sent: Thu 6/19/2003 6:50 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Cc:
Subject: Re: Count lines in file..fast
grep -c mystring myfile
(or fgrep)
-- JMM
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Jean-Marc MONNEZ
MSA / AGORA / ATD
monnez.jean-marc@agora.msa.fr
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Arthur Prince wrote :
> I need a fast method of counting lines in a file that contain a specific
> string.
>
> I am currently using grep mystring myfile | wc -l
>
> but this is slow on large files.
>
> Anyone got a faster method?
>
> AP
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