WC(1) FSF WC(1)NAME
wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print byte, word, and newline 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.
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
-l, --lines
print the newline counts
-L, --max-line-length
print the length of the longest line
-w, --words
print the word counts
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info wc
should give you access to the complete manual.
wc (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 WC(1)
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WC(1) User Commands WC(1)NAME
wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
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. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters delimited by white space. The options below may be used to select
which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
-l, --lines
print the newline counts
--files0-from=F
read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
-L, --max-line-length
print the length of the longest line
-w, --words
print the word counts
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report wc bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info coreutils 'wc invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 WC(1)
Hello,
I have a file in which there are many lines.
I don't know the length of any line and they also vary.
I want to pick the last word of those lines which end with for eg. xyz
Thanks in Advance (12 Replies)
Hi All,
I know that i can print the lines from awk just using the print method, but i need to print stuff before it i.e:
BEGIN
{
i=0
}
{
i++
print i ")"
print
}
END
{
}
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Hi All,
I am a newbie.I hope I will learn lot here.
Thanks for buliding such a resourceful forum.
My question :
I want to print just the 35th line in a file ,
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I want to print lines from file using certain conditions
for exmple:
# The following commands will create a new control file and use it
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hi,
I want to print the below lines
"Message from bac logistics
The Confirmation File has not been received."
When i give like this in the code
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It is giving only
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How do I match second word and then print that line to output
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xytxti8naclip y
xytxt32bpsimple y
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xytxti16nae y
xysmps32bpp031_bst n... (7 Replies)
I am using the while-loop to read a file.
The file has lines with null-terminated strings (words, actually.)
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What I am doing wrong?
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display the lines of files gven as parameter which
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Hi all,
Can any one tell the script to print a line with one bye one character or word..
Ex: Hi every one. How are you all ....
I want to print like...
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OR
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Hello
Im new treat me nicely, I have a headache :)
I have a script that seemed to work now it doesnt anyway, the last part is adding counts of unique items in a csv file eg
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