[Techtalk] count pages of text file

Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon at thenilgiris.com
Thu Dec 8 18:08:57 EST 2005


On Thursday 08 Dec 2005 8:44 am, Mary wrote:
> > I can get the lines, words and size of the file with wc but
> > what about page number?
>
> This really depends on which tool you are using to print it,
> because changes in font-size or layout affect where the page
> breaks will fall. What tool are you going to use to print it?

or just divide the no of lines by 60 - this will give the approx 
number of pages

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