Let say I have the program:
Calculate.py
Is there a unix command-line that counts the number of lines outputted from my program, Calculate.py?
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You can pipe the output in to wc. You can use the -l flag to count lines. Run the program normally and use a pipe to redirect to wc.
python Calculate.py | wc -l
Alternatively, you can redirect the output of your program to a file, say calc.out, and run wc on that file.
python Calculate.py > calc.out
wc -l calc.out
answered Dec 9, 2015 at 4:40
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4It's little things like this that make piping so damn powerful. We'd do ourselves good to bring this interoperability back to software development, which I suppose is what Functional Programming is all about. Oct 27, 2018 at 14:26
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1@JoshuaPinter on the other thand if you just want to pipe the number of lines into another function, you now need to manually parse the output of
wc. Mercifully this is easy (cut -f1 -d' '), but the same isn't true for every command. There's something to be said for the Powershell approach of making the command line primitive an "object", rather than a text stream. Nov 26, 2018 at 19:42 -
@shadowtalker I'm not familiar with Powershell but passing
objects instead ofStrings makes sense. At some point I'd like to dive deep into more command line tooling. Nov 27, 2018 at 2:13
Above communicate (wc -l) will count the empty lines too. so better to use below command which deletes the empty lines and count it
python Calculate.py |sed '/^$/d'| awk '{print NR}'| sort -nr| sed -n '1p'
answered Mar 14, 2019 at 18:01
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1Seriously?
sed | awk | sort | sedjust to count lines? (1)sed '/^$/d'can be collapsed intogrep -v '^$'or evengrep '.'. (2) Then, to count lines, add-c, sopython Calculate.py | grep -c '.'. (And you don’t even need the quotes around “.”.) Mar 15 at 20:47