Type the complete command that reports ONLY the number of lines in the file report.txt, passing the file as an argument.
LPIC-1 Exam 101-500, objective 103. GNU and Unix commands easy
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Answer
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Accepted answers
wc -l report.txtwc --lines report.txt
Case sensitive — Linux is, and grading LS as ls would teach a falsehood.
Why
wc prints line, word and byte counts. -l restricts it to lines, -w to words, -c to bytes and -m to characters. With a file argument the count is followed by the file name; if you pipe the data in instead (wc -l < report.txt) you get the bare number, which is handy inside scripts.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- LPI exam objective 103.2
- What it says
- Count lines, words and characters in a text stream with wc.
Practise this
Reading one question is not practice. The trainer will draw a set from objective 103 and space the ones you get wrong.