Shell Programming and Scripting

wordCount=0

while [ $1 ] #reads in files from command line as args
do 
while read line < $1 #reads the lines of the file
do

  for word in $line #breaks the line up into words and counts each one
  do
    wordCount=`expr $wordCount + 1`
    echo $word #prints words to screen for debugging purposes
  done

done
shift #shifts over to the next arg
done
echo There are $wordCount words in the file. #prints the amount of words.