Reputation:

How can i echo string + command in terminal

how can i 'echo' this command(NUMBER lines in my script):

Number of lines is 23.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
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echo Number of line is cat $0 | wc -l
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Upvotes: 3

Answers (3)

Reputation: 21446

This is an another solution

 grep -c ^  [FILENAME]

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 451

This should do the trick.

#!/bin/bash

echo "This script is `wc -l $0 | cut -d " " -f 1` lines long."

Upvotes: 5

Reputation: 37023

Try

echo "Number of line is `wc -l < $0`"

Upvotes: 0