Re: [PATCH Coreutils 5.2.1] wc : add -t slot to display "true" lines

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> FabF wrote:
>> (Please cc me)
>>      Here's a patch to add "count only used lines" in wc.
>> This can be useful if you want to know how many lines of real text are
>> featuring.
>
> This looks remarkably like the standard command:
>
>   grep -c . filename

And

    grep -c '[^[:space:]]' filename

if you want to ignore blank lines, too.

Andreas.

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