How can I count the records in a file?
The command wc
(short for "word count") prints the number of characters, words, and lines in a file.
You can make it print only one of these using -c
, -w
, or -l
respectively.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Shell
Exercise instructions
Count how many records in seasonal/spring.csv
have dates in July 2017 (2017-07
).
- To do this, use
grep
with a partial date to select the lines and pipe this result intowc
with an appropriate flag to count the lines.
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