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Quick way to find number of lines in 16GB file
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Windows
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Computing in general
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>Hi everybody,
>
>I have a 16GB csv file. I'd like to find number of lines in that file, so I try wc -l "name of the file" command by opening GitBash in the directory containing that file. Unfortunately, I waited ~30+ minutes and didn't get any result it. Do you know a quick way of finding number of lines in such a huge file?
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>I can open this file to view using Lister.exe but it doesn't give me the lines count. All other editors cannot open the file.
>
>Thanks in advance.

I've worked with big files using notepad++ ... https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
VFP using fopen, fread, fput, etc could work too.
ICQ 10556 (ya), 254117
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