wc Questions

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I would like to use the lines coming from 'wc' as variables. For example: echo 'foo bar' > file.txt echo 'blah blah blah' >> file.txt wc file.txt 2 5 23 file.txt I would like to have s...
Elianaelianora asked 19/8, 2011 at 9:58

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I use the command wc -l count number of lines in my text files (also i want to sort everything through a pipe), like this: wc -l $directory-path/*.txt | sort -rn The output includes "total" line...
Mars asked 29/12, 2016 at 18:32

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When I run the word count command in OSX terminal like wc -c file.txt I get the below answer that includes spaces padded before the answer. Does anyone know why this happens, or how I can prevent i...
Cockatrice asked 18/6, 2015 at 23:34

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Hi I am new to UNIX and I have to get the count of lines from incoming csv files. I have used the following command to get the count. wc -l filename.csv Consider files coming with 1 record iam get...
Townscape asked 19/3, 2014 at 16:32

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In Linux we have the "wc" command which allows us to count the number of characters, words and lines in a file. But do we have a similar cmdlet in PowerShell. The Measure-Object cmdlet I tried cou...
Merete asked 10/1, 2020 at 16:49

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I've come across some (to me) weird behaviour when piping the output of a Python script into wc with invalid arguments. λ python test.py Hello! λ python test.py | wc -li wc: unknown option -- i Tr...
Perceive asked 13/9, 2015 at 22:38

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Is there a way to get the integer that wc returns in bash? Basically I want to write the line numbers and word counts to the screen after the file name. output: filename linecount wordcount Here is...
Older asked 19/9, 2010 at 18:33

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wc -l file.txt outputs number of lines and file name. I need just the number itself (not the file name). I can do this wc -l file.txt | awk '{print $1}' But maybe there is a better way?
Aut asked 19/4, 2012 at 23:37

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I need to check if wc command output is greather than a variable. Here's my code: if test wc -w $i -gt $num then echo "too great" fi If the current file $i contains more words than the $num var...
Steelworks asked 23/3, 2020 at 10:33

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Take a look at this example please: $ cat < demo man car$ $ $ od -x < demo 0000000 616d 0a6e 6163 0072 0000007 $ $ wc < demo 1 2 7 As you can see, I've got there 3 characters (man:...
Commercial asked 3/10, 2016 at 11:27

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I have a fasta file that looks like this : >0011 my.header CAAGTTTATCCACATAATGCGAATAACCAATAATCCTTTTCATAAGTCTATTCTTCATAATCTAAATCGT TTTCAAGTACATAATTATCCTTTGCCTGTTCGTTAGTTTTATTAAAATTATACTGATCTTTCT...
Exposition asked 3/4, 2018 at 14:34

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Working with huge CSV files for data analytics, we commonly need to know the row count of all csv files located in a particular folder. But how to do it with just only one command in Linux?
Postfix asked 26/2, 2018 at 12:38

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When I issued two equivalent commands in Bash I got different output (from "wc -l" command), see below: root@devel:~# ls /usr/bin -lha | tee >(wc -l) >(head) > /dev/null total 76M drwxr-x...
Uterine asked 12/11, 2017 at 19:49

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I am processing a number of large text files, ie. converting them all from one format to another. There are some small differences in the original formats of the files, but - with a bit of pre-proc...
Beekeeping asked 18/4, 2017 at 16:39

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I have to work with a collection of 120 files of ~2 GB (525600 lines x 302 columns). The goal is to make some statistics and put the results in a clean SQLite database. Everything works fine when ...
Idalia asked 6/3, 2014 at 15:39

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I have the following three constructs in a bash script: NUMOFLINES=$(wc -l $JAVA_TAGS_FILE) echo $NUMOFLINES" lines" echo $(wc -l $JAVA_TAGS_FILE)" lines" echo "$(wc -l $JAVA_TAGS_FILE) lines" ...
Spandau asked 18/8, 2012 at 21:15

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I am trying to execute the below command - but the output has some leading space introduced. ls -lrt | wc -l 29 echo $SHELL /bin/bash When I run the same command on a different machine,the outp...
Quinate asked 28/8, 2015 at 7:21

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I have to write a script that takes a sentence and prints the word count, character count (excluding the spaces), length of each word and the length. I know that there exist wc -m to counter number...
Ellsworthellwood asked 5/1, 2012 at 2:21

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Is that possible? Doing wc the straight forward way I have to spend some mental energy to see that the file contains more than 40 million lines: $ wc -l 20150210.txt 45614736 20150210.txt I se...
Ocd asked 12/5, 2015 at 14:25

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Suppose your tput cols (or COLUMNS) is equal to 100 and you have a plain text file foo.txt with a single line that is 120 characters long. If you wanted to count number of lines it contains ...
Third asked 1/5, 2015 at 22:35

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Suppose I want to count the lines of code in a project. If all of the files are in the same directory I can execute: cat * | wc -l However, if there are sub-directories, this doesn't work....
Lunkhead asked 25/11, 2008 at 7:36

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I have been trying to make the scripts I write simpler and simpler. There are numerous ways to write get the word count of all files in a folder, or even all files of subdirectories of a folder. ...
Endomorph asked 5/6, 2014 at 6:15

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I need to count the number of lines of a given variable. For example I need to find how many lines VAR has, where VAR=$(git log -n 10 --format="%s"). I tried with echo "$VAR" | wc -l), which indee...
Libelee asked 19/5, 2014 at 11:27

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I have a find script that automatically opens a file if just one file is found. The way I currently handle it is doing a word count on the number of lines of the search results. Is there an easier ...
Parameter asked 29/1, 2014 at 22:42

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wc -c appears to only do a dumb bytecount, not interpret actual characters with regard for encoding. How can I get the actual character count?
Tier asked 8/11, 2013 at 6:4

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