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Old 08-17-2008
how to count characters by line of file ?
Hello, Member or professional

need help how to count characters by line of file
Example of the file is here

HTML Code:
cdr20080817164322811681txt
cdr20080817164322811txt
cdr20080817164322811683txt
cdr20080817164322811684txt
I want to count the characters by line of file . The output that I want it to be is this

HTML Code:
cdr20080817164322811681txt = 26 char
cdr20080817164322811txt = 23 char
cdr20080817164322811683txt = 26 char
cdr20080817164322811684txt = 26 char
Is anyone can help me?

Thank.
# 2  
Old 08-17-2008
try this..

cat infile | while read line
do

count=$(echo $line | wc -c)
echo $line $count

done
# 3  
Old 08-17-2008
Code:
perl -nle 'print length' file

# 4  
Old 08-17-2008
Thank
Thank you all answer
# 5  
Old 08-17-2008
Code:
ruby -ne 'printf("%s = %s\n", $_.chomp, $_.chomp.length)' < file

Code:
awk '{ print $0 " = " length($0) }' file

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