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Heaven
Heaven

Reputation: 115

How to simply display lines of a file - Batch

I am trying to find a easy way to display how many lines of text there is in a text file, but google in some kind of way keeps showing these totally advanced scripts that makes no sence.. as always i try not to keep things to complicated and as minimal as possible.

echo +hehe0 > ex.txt
set num=0
:loop
set /a num=%num%+1
echo +hehe%num% >> ex.txt
if %num% equ 6 goto end
findstr /n "+" ex.txt
pause

i hope this will make good sence, and help others as well, one love

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (1)

Magoo
Magoo

Reputation: 79982

To display # of lines:

type filename|find /c /v ""

To assign # of lines to a variable:

for /f %%a in ('type filename^|find /c /v "" ') do set var=%%a

(%%a if within a batchfile; %a if directly from the prompt.)

Upvotes: 1

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