What is the command to count number of lines in a file in hdfs

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I have a file in my hadoop hdfs /example2/doc1. I want to know how many lines this file has. What command can I use for this?
Nov 22, 2018 in Big Data Hadoop by slayer
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hadoop fs -cat /example2/doc1 | wc -l
answered Nov 22, 2018 by Omkar
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