How do I count lines on a file?

[sandratz]

Hello!

Can you pls tell me how I can count lines from a file and store the numeric value in a variable without including the string part?
I used the wc command but it wasn't useful bse it also stored the string part!
Example, variable=wc -l myfile, resulted into 5 myfile.

How can I get it to store only 5?

Pls help...

[ghostdog74]

you can count lines  and get the number of lines in a few ways

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wc -l file | cut -d" " -f1
wc -l file | awk  '{print $1}'
awk 'END{print NR}' file
grep -c . file
doing homework huh?

[sandratz]

 
Hi and thanks very much for your help!! The code worked!
It's odd that I lost my dog Scooby a week ago, and now someone with a username - ghostdog helped me out in my homework!

Thanx again