From: dmcg6174 AT yahoo DOT com (daniel gerard mcgrath)
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Subject: Re: "shell" command in DJGPP Emacs?
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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:00:24 GMT
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On 8 Oct 2002 12:59:28 GMT, Dave Pearson <davep DOT news AT davep DOT org> wrote:

>* daniel gerard mcgrath <dmcg6174 AT yahoo DOT com>:
>
>> OK!  Well, actually, I need a function that works something like this:
>> 
>> (count-lines-in-file FILENAME)
>> 
>> where FILENAME is some sort of path name, like
>> "/windows/dansstuf.txt", and the result being that the number of lines
>> (i.e. newline characters) in DANSSTUF.TXT (or whatever) is returned
>> from the "count-lines-in-file" function.
>
>(defun count-lines-in-file (file)
>  "Count lines in FILE.
>
>If called as an interactive command, also display the count."
>  (interactive "fFile: ")
>  (with-temp-buffer
>    (insert-file-contents-literally file)
>    (let ((count (count-lines (point-min) (point-max))))
>      (when (interactive-p)
>        (message "%d" count))
>      count)))
>
I don't have a "with-temp-buffer" function.

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