text-processing-wc.md

Text Processing: wc

Examining File(s)

$ wc note.txt
>     5    31     146    note.txt
# lines words bytes

$ wc -lw note1.txt note2.txt note3.txt
>     10    62    note1.txt
>     12    74    note2.txt
>     12    68    note3.txt
>     43    204   total

Examining stdin

$ ls | wc
>     4    4    20

$ ls | wc -w
> 4

Measurable Elements

• -c - bytes
• -l - lines
• -m - characters
• -w - words
• -L - length of longest line

Longest Line

$ cat file.txt
> abc
> abcdef

$ cat file.txt | wc -L
> 6