The count command returns the number of rows of a CSV file.
It will not include the header row in the returned count, unless you provide the -n/--no-headers flag.
So, given this particular file:
people.csv
| name | surname |
|---|---|
| John | Black |
| Lucy | Red |
| Guillaume | Orange |
The following command:
xan count people.csvWill return 3.
Given this file:
people.csv
| John | Black |
| Lucy | Red |
| Guillaume | Orange |
The following command:
xan count -n people.csvWill return 3.
Note that this is not always identical to the simpler:
wc -l people.csvbecause the xan count command is of course CSV-aware and will be able to tolerate properly escaped newlines within cell values.