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bug#6356: How to avoid showing the 'total' line with wc -l?
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Davide Brini |
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bug#6356: How to avoid showing the 'total' line with wc -l? |
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Sat, 5 Jun 2010 18:41:44 +0100 |
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On Saturday 05 June 2010, Peng Yu wrote:
> When I use wc -l *.txt, it show the total number of lines at the end.
> I don't necessary need this last line. Is there a way to disable it?
It's dictated by POSIX. You can try
wc -l *.txt | head -n -1
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