TextEdit Get the count of lines in a file

There is no status bar for the TextEdit application on the Mac to show the word or the line count of a file.

If you want to know the number of lines in a file using TextEdit, you would need to use a hack using the Find option.

1. Open the file in TextEdit
2. Now go to Edit -> Find -> Find... (or simply press Command + F)
3. Now on the search icon (magnifying glass, click on Insert Pattern.

   

4. Choose line break.

   

5. You should see a count of all the line breaks in the file and this is the number of lines (add one to the count) in the file.

As you can see I get a count of 4, need to add one to get the total count of the lines the file.