Is there a DOS command to count the number of lines in a text file ?

Someone told be there's one in Unix and they suggested there was probably one in DOS.

So, is there or not ?

I don't remember any version of DOS having native line or word count, it was one of the missing features people wrote utilities to provide, like here:

http://members.optushome.com.au/quentinc/ti.html

For example:

• find/c/v "~`!@#$%^&*()_+" c:\foobar.txt

In other words, we've told FIND to count ("/c") the number of lines that do not contain ("/v") a string of text ("~`!@#$%^&*()_+") that is unlikely to exist in the file ("c:\foobar.txt"). FIND will return a result similar to:

• ---------- c:\foobar.txt: 143

(The "143" is the number of lines found).

Thanks to you both.

Vernon I think I like your option.

Cheers.

You're Welcome. :)

BTW, if you'd rather not see the:

• ---------- c:\foobar.txt:

in the DOS (FIND's) response, you could use something like:

• type c:\foobar.txt|find/c/v "~`!@#$%^&*()_+"

instead. All you'll get then is simply the number of lines.