[Techtalk] count pages of text file

[Kathryn Hogg]

Noir wrote:
> I have a README text file that I need to print out.
> But I need to know how many pages it would be before I
> print it. Is there any tools or methods I can use to
> get the total page number?
>
> I can get the lines, words and size of the file with
> wc but what about page number?

expr $(wc -l $file | awk '{print $1}') / $lines_per_page

Of course that is off by one if its not evenly divisible but thats an
exercise for the reader.

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Kathryn
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