I have a specific need for counting the number of lines in a file quickly. At work we use S3 for data storage during our Kedro pipeline development, and in the development process we may end up orphaning several datasets. In order to keep our workspace clean I have a short utility that compares the datasets in a Kedro DataCatalog with the files in the relevant S3 location.
To get that list I run an internal tool like this:
kedro our-liter | grep s3 >> orphaned_datasets.txt
This simply parses our internal linter for the lines releated to my s3 linter utility and pipes those lines to a file.
To get a quick idea of how out of wack a pipeline is I could open the text file in vim, git it with the G and see what line number I'm on but I'm way too lazy for that...
AWK
awk 'END {print NR}' orphaned_datasets.txt gives me the number of lines and I can alias this to whatever feels appropriate in my zshrc!
built-ins for the win!