Script, Reading a file, When end of file?

elibm · 07-16-2001, 10:23 AM

Hello everybody,

I am a new Linux user, I am creating a small script to read a file and count the number of lines that it has, so I do bucle read while is not the end of the file, but I do not know how to find out
when the end of the file has been reach.

Can somebody help me?

Thanks.
Elias.

jharris · 07-16-2001, 10:30 AM

Was this just a shell scripting experiment? If so ignore this! If not, and you actually need to count the number of lines in a file how about

Code:

wc -l myFile

cheers

Jamie...

elibm · 07-16-2001, 11:01 AM

Yes, it is a shell scripting experiment, but is very usefull what you
told me because now I can do a bucle that stops when the last line has been read.

Thanks.

EliBM.