NAME

count - counts items in a file

SYNOPSIS

count [ options ] file1 ... filen

DESCRIPTION

Count reads all of the specified files and produces one line of output for each input file: the number of the characters, the number of 'words', and the number of lines in the specified files. 'Words' is an arbitrary term in reference to programs, because they tend to have a lot of punctuation. For text files a word is a sequence of characters separated by white space.

If more than one file is given, a grand total is also printed. If no filenames are given, count reads from standard input. Any combination of options works; the default is (-c -w -l -llen -t).

OPTIONS

All options except tab= and -llen can be abbreviated to their first letter. The option -llen can be abbreviated with -ll.

-chars

Counts characters based on bytes.

-mchars

Counts multi byte characters.

-words

Counts words.

-lines

Counts lines.

-llen

Counts maximum line length.

tab=tab width

Set the width of a tab to tab width for counting maximum line length.

-stat

Use stat(2) system call to get the character count of a file. This is much faster but cannot count anything but characters.

-total

Grand totals of several files.

-help

Prints a short summary of the count options and exists.

-version

Prints the count version number string and exists.

BUGS

None currently known.

Mail bugs and suggestions to schilytools@mlists.in-berlin.de or open a ticket at https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/issues

The mailing list archive may be found at:

https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de

AUTHORS

Joerg Schilling and the schilytools project authors.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD

The source code for count is included in the schilytools project and may be retrieved from the schilytools project at Codeberg at:

https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/

The download directory is:

https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/releases