Do you know a similar program for wc (unix word count command) on Windows? [closed]

Answer 1

There is also WinXs 4.2, it's shareware, so you could see if it'll do what you need it to.

Could you install a script language for this? It might be overkill, but if it gets the job done with a minimum of fuss...

Answer 2

Here are two other (pure Windows CMD) ways to count lines in a git log:

set n=0
for /f %a in ('git log --oneline') do set /a n=n+1

Or:

git log --online | find /v /c ""

The advantage of the first one is that you end up with the value in an environment variable you can do stuff with. But it might perform slow with huge files.

Answer 3

Well, I'm sorry to disagree, but unxutils do have a wc.exe

Give it a try!

Cheers,

Answer 4

getgnuwin32 facilitates downloading and installing of gnuwin32 (which certainly has wc utility).

Answer 5

You can use the original "wc", built for windows: it is part of the coreutils package. Get the most recent coreutils exe.

Answer 6

For unix tools on windows your options are:

msys - similair to unixtools, originally just a few build tools needed to go with mingw (native version of gcc), now has almost all of the cygwin tools

cygwin - just about everythign for unix, complex install and requires a dll to provide unix api. Can be problems mixing tools built with different versions of cygwin.dll

Unixtools - not all the tools provided by cygwin but compiled natively

ch - pretty much all the unix tools, compiled natively. And a shell which includes a 'c' interpreter. The standard version is free (beer) but not open source.

uwin - free from ATT, includes the korn shell if you like that sort of thing.

mks a Commercial port of unix tools. Rather expensive given the free versions available.