How do I do a "word count" command in Windows Command Prompt

Question

I know the command in Unix/Linux systems is "wc" but that doesn't work in Windows.

For reference the description for the UNIX word count command wc is:

Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Hying

Answer 1

The closest I know of is the PowerShell equivalent Measure-Object.

Get-Content filename.txt | Measure-Object -Word

Should give a word count similar to:

wc -w filename.txt

If you look at the help for Get-Content you will see it has aliases of gc, cat, and type and the alias for Measure-Object is measure so you could also type:

cat [filename] | measure -w

Carbide

There are more examples in a later Q&A #59686319 – Farther

Answer 2

find command could be used in windows cmd to find line count (with the /c switch), word count etc.

http://rickardnobel.se/counting-lines-in-windows-command-prompt/

Bemire

Answer 3

"Find" will be able to do the task similar to word count as RRM told.

Eg.

Query user | find /v /c ""

/v – Show any lines that don’t contain the string of words you specified. /c - Count the number of lines that matches the word in fine.

Query user | find /i "active" /c

/i - Ignore case /c - Count the number of lines that matches the word in fine.

Budget

Please add correct tags for your question, like bash etc. – Angelikaangelina

In this example is it looking for the word "active"? If I look for count of "fail" in "result.txt": Query user | find /i "fail" /c E:\tests\result.txt – Languishment

wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file. It doesn't look for occurrences of a specific word. – Farther

Answer 4

wc is part of the GNU Core Utils for Windows. I often install GnuWin32 utilities on Microsoft Windows systems to supply equivalents to the commands I use regularly on Linux and OS X systems.

Quantifier

Awesome! I assume there's a version for 64 bit systems? – Hying

Answer 5

You can use .Count

For example:

(findstr -i -s -m "example" *.txt).Count

This is the same as:

grep -l 'example' *.txt | wc -l

Berghoff