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Counting lines of a text file

To count lines of one or many files on the shell I use wc (Wordcount). If you want to count all lines of all CSV files in a dictionary, just type:

wc -l *.csv


About the author

is an experienced Software Engineer with a Master's degree in Computer Science. He started this website in late 2015, mostly as a digital business card. He is interested in Go, Python, Ruby, SQL- and NoSQL-databases, machine learning and AI and is experienced in building scalable, distributed systems and micro-services at multiple larger and smaller companies.