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# HOW TO : count lines in windows command line
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- Published: 2016-05-30T07:50:19.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-30T07:50:19.000Z
- Description: Say you are using netstat to checl all established network connections on a windows machine (confirmed to work on windows 7+ and windows server 2008+) and...
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- Tags: HOWTO, Technology, Uncategorized, Windows, howto, network, tips, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

Say you are using netstat to checl all established network connections on a windows machine (confirmed to work on windows 7+ and windows server 2008+) and want to find out how many connections you have, you can use

netstat -an | find "ESTABLISHED" | find /v /c ""

breaking down the command string

**netstat -an** : Uses netstat command to display all connections and listening ports (-a) and displays them in numerical form instead of resolving DNS or using common names (-n)

**|** : piping (passing) output of one command to the next one

**find “ESTABLISHED”** : Uses find command to filter out to just lines that contain the string “ESTABLISHED”‘

**find /c /v “”** : exclude blank lines (/v “”) and count the number of remaining lines (/c)

If you wanted to something similar in linux, you can use

netstat -an | grep "ESTABLISHED" | wc -l