Counting characters, words, length of the words and total length in a sentence

Question

I have to write a script that takes a sentence and prints the word count, character count (excluding the spaces), length of each word and the length. I know that there exist

Answer 1

You are very close. In bash you can use # to get the length of your variable.

Also, if you want to use bash interpreter use bash instead of sh and the first line goes like this -

#!/bin/bash

Use this script -

#!/bin/bash

mystring="one two three test five"
for token in $mystring
do
    if [ $token = "one" ]
    then
        echo ${#token}
    elif [ $token = "two" ]
    then
        echo ${#token}
    elif [ $token = "three" ]
    then
        echo ${#token}
    elif [ $token = "test" ]
    then
        echo ${#token}
    elif [ $token = "five" ]
    then
        echo ${#token}
    fi
done