Re: How to find the number of lines in tst file using DOS?

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Vinoth Rajagopal wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> In batch code, is it possible to count the number of files from the text
> file 
> 
> For eg.,
> Text file "Src.txt" contains the following text....
> uuuuu
> vvvvvv
> xxxxxx
> yyyyyy
> zzzzzz
> 
> I need to find the number of lines available in "Src.Txt" and also i need to
> print(echo) the 3rd line. 
> 
> Is there any option to resolve this issue..., Please help me to resolve this
> issue....,

Supposing that you don't want to use the ports of GNU,
suggested in the other reply, you need to write a little
program in some other language. The MSDOS batch file
interpreter is really not up to this job.

Mike
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