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December 22, 2016 12:32
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powershell script for counting the lines of a large file
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| $YOURFILE = "example.txt"; | |
| $nlines = 0; | |
| #read file by 1000 lines at a time | |
| gc $YOURFILE -read 1000 | % { $nlines += $_.Length }; | |
| [string]::Format("{0} has {1} lines", $YOURFILE, $nlines) |
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