linux - Count number of line using C

Question

Is there a way to count the number of lines in my file using C?

Answer 1

If you are referring to the line number within your c source, most compilers support the __LINE__ macro. If you want to count line numbers of arbitrary text files in c, the following functions should be starting points:

• fopen() to open a file for reading
• fgets() to read lines
• eof() to check for end of file
• fclose() to close the file

Combining these into a line counter is left as an exercise to the reader :)