Read lines with awk regardless of line ending style

Question

What's the best way to count the number of lines in a file with awk, regardless of the line ending style (DOS / Windows, UNIX, etc.)?

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Tyson 03 oct. '09 at 12:34

3 answers

You can write a script to count the number of lines and get the perfect result. The script for this is also available here Count Number of lines in UNIX that have data

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farhankhwaja 07 nov. At 4:18 am

What about

grep -c '^.*$' filename

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Peter 03 oct. '09 at 12:44

ghostdog74 · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-03T01:00:54+0000

do dos2unix or unix2dos on the file first before using awk.