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Why are wc -m and wc -c different?
As a C programmer, I was surprised to see that wc -c (which count the number of bytes), and wc -m (which counts the number of characters) output very different results for a long, text file of mine. I ...
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Number of lines outputted by ls
When ls is called, it outputs all the files/directories in the current directory, attempting to fit as many as possible on each line. Why is it that when passed to wc -l, it outputs the number of ...
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Count lines matching pattern and matching previous line
I want to count the number of times that a role is successfully deleted. The problem is that one line of the log file will show that the script is about to delete the role:
Prepare to remove role X
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command like wc but with tee behaviour
I want to backup a database using psql and COPY command. here is my script:
psql "user=${USERNAME} host=${HOSTNAME} dbname=${DBNAME} password=${PASSWORD}" -c \
"COPY (SELECT * FROM tbl) ORDER BY id ...
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How can I split a large text file into chunks of 500 words or so?
I know there's the command split which can split a file into several chunks based on file size, and then there's the command wc which can count words. I just don't know how to use the two together.
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Character count in Unix wc command
When I give wc command on a file with contents given below, it gives the number of characters as 30. Does it include the end of file character? Since including the space and newline there are only 29 ...
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How to count the number of lines in a UTF-16LE/CR-LF/BOM file?
The immediate thought is wc, but then the next not-so-immediate thought is... Is *nix's wc purely for *nix line endings \x0a?... It seems so.
I've semi-wangled my way around it, but I feel there ...
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reading entries from multiple files
I have few files like A.txt, B.txt and C.txt, each having a only single number in it i.e A.txt has 45 B.txt has 35 and C.txt has 100. How could I read these entries from each files and report with its ...
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Get correct number of lines in diff output
I want to get the correct number of lines in the output of diff(specifically with -y and --suppress-common-lines options). Using a simple wc -l does not work, because if both files end without a ...
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Inconsistent input redirection behavior
I wrote a 10000010-byte file (99010 rows of 100 consecutive a's) named big for experimentation purposes. I then copied the entire text into my clipboard, ran wc, and pasted it into stdin. Next, I did ...
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The simplest method to count lines matching specific patterns, including '0' if line is not found?
I have very big logs (several gigabytes per day), that can (but do not need to) contain specific lines. I have to count the number of occurences of every one of these lines on a daily basis.
I have a ...
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Print folders names character count
I am trying to use find . -type d -print | wc -m where -m or --chars would print the character counts of the folder names.
Take following screen shot as example, the character count for tempFolder + ...
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Speeding a find rm command with test through parallelization
I want to recursively delete all files in directories and subdirectories with number of lines less than 10, and am currently using the following command
find . -type f -name "*.txt" | while read; do ...
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How to make wc interpret standard in as a file list
I know that there are other ways to go about this, but I'm looking to be able to make wc interpret stdin as a file name or list of file names. For example,
ls JP*/std* | wc
would work the same as ...
