On Monday 02 February 2009, richard terry wrote: > 1) I have a file with some 30,000 lines, but I want to know how many lines > are > in the file before I do anything to it - is this possible. I couldn't see how > just looking at the syntax for files. > > > 2) Given that I could figure out how many lines, I wondered if someone could > give me some tips on how to use the progress bar and how one moves it along > in any situation in response to how long something takes - I mean - does one > just "guess" the time it will take and move the pointer accordingly? > > Regards > > richard >
something like shell(wc -l "filename") Info in man pages for cli programm with name 'wc' wc -c, --bytes print the byte counts -m, --chars print the character counts -l, --lines print the newline counts --files0-from=F read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F -L, --max-line-length print the length of the longest line -w, --words print the word counts Best regards, Ron_1st -- A: Delete the text you reply on. Q: What to do to get my post on top? --- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? --- A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
