Bash shell command that returns the number of lines in a file?

Question

Googleing the subject line returns a lo of commands that tell the file size. Like:

ole@waddup:~/$ du -h package.json 
4.0K    package.json

How can we find the number of lines in the file. For example if package.json contains 55 lines, how do we see this very quickly running a command?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '17 at 00:16

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Use the wc command line utility:

wc -l package.json

answered Nov 03 '17 at 00:16

Lyle Taylor

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 03 '17 at 00:15

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How can we find the number of lines in the file

wc -l <file>

answered Nov 03 '17 at 00:15

Adam Siemion

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