From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T17:21:58+09:00
Subject: Re: # of lines in a file

> > if on unix:
> > `wc -l #{filename}` or similar (I don't remember the exact 
> syntax for wc)
> 
> Your use of syntax is correct, there.  The -l option tells wc to only
> report the number of lines.

Nearly correct. It also prints out the filename. A better approach
when calling from Ruby would be

  linecount=`wc -l <#{filename}`.chomp.to_i

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