Re: Count lines in file..fast

From: Ross Alexander (ralexan9@telusplanet.net)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 10:22:09 EDT

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Frank Chiavoni wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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
>
> ---------------------
>
> sed -n '$=' myfile

grep -c

regards,
Ross

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