[Ubuntu] Word Count

Ubuntu 환경의 쉘에서 특정 word를 count하거나 특정 파일의 라인수를 카운트하는 wc 명령에 대해 알아보자.

$ wc --help
Usage: wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
  or:  wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
more than one FILE is specified.  A word is a non-zero-length sequence of
characters delimited by white space.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

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 maximum display width
  -w, --words            print the word counts
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'

wc 명령은 다음과 같이 여러가지로 이용가능하다.

• 특정 파일의 라인수 카운트

$ wc -l test.md 
42 test.md

• 특정 문자 카운트

$ cat test.md  | grep config | wc -l
4

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l
8