GNU bug report logs - #6356
How to avoid showing the 'total' line with wc -l?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Davide Brini <dave_br <at> gmx.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6356: How to avoid showing the 'total' line with wc -l?
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 18:41:44 +0100

On Saturday 05 June 2010, Peng Yu wrote:

> When I use wc -l *.txt, it show the total number of lines at the end.
> I don't necessary need this last line. Is there a way to disable it?

It's dictated by POSIX. You can try

wc -l *.txt | head -n -1

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