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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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...
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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:...
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I have a fasta file that looks like this :
>0011 my.header
CAAGTTTATCCACATAATGCGAATAACCAATAATCCTTTTCATAAGTCTATTCTTCATAATCTAAATCGT
TTTCAAGTACATAATTATCCTTTGCCTGTTCGTTAGTTTTATTAAAATTATACTGATCTTTCT...
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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?
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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...
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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"
...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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....
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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.
...
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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...
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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 ...
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