Question

I have a text file which has over 60MB size. It has got entries in 5105043 lines, but when I am doing wc -l it is giving only 5105042 results which is one less than actual. Does anyone have any idea why it is happening?

Is it a common thing when the file size is large?

Answer 1

Last line does not contain a new line.

One trick to get the result you want would be:

sed -n '=' <yourfile> | wc -l

This tells sed just to print the line number of each line in your file which wc then counts. There are probably better solutions, but this works.