Aug 25, 2011
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Stupid command-line trick: Counting the number of lines in stdin
On unix, you can use to count the number of lines in stdin. Windows doesn't come with , but there's a sneaky way to count the number of lines anyway: It is a special quirk of the command that the null string is treated as never matching. The flag reverses the sense of the test, so now it matches everything. And the flag returns the count. ...