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

Answer 1

Try:

find /c /v "~any string that will never occur~"

This command gives a count of all lines that DO NOT contain the search string. Testing it, I see a problem that it doesn't seem to count blank lines at the end of a file.

Answer 2

I found this thread and was charmed by the innovative solutions for emulating wc using just the tools that Windows has built in. This stimulated an answer to my need for a character count so that I might prevail in my battle with a web form field's max character warning.

If you want wc -c which gives a byte count you can use DEBUG, a DOS utility (which isn't listed by the HELP command) in Windows. Character count should equal byte count minus the line count times the size of a newline, which is one newline character for Unix ('\n') or two characters, carriage return + linefeed ('\cr' and '\lf' or '\0Dh' '0Ah' for a DOS plain text file.

Char Count = Byte Count - (Line Count * sizeof("\n"))

To do this open a command line window (Start->Run->Open: "cmd"), run debug on the plain text file and examine the CX register which contains the length of the file loaded:

Debug [pathname] -rcx CX [filelength in hex] : -q

Then run find on the file:

find /v /c "notlikelystring" ---------- [pathname]: [line count]

And apply the formula.

Answer 3

My unxutils pack has word count:

C:\Java\vssWorkspace\java\portlets_core>wc -l C:\Users\malp\AppData\Local\Temp__portlets41366.html 79717 C:\Users\malp\AppData\Local\Temp__portlets41366.html

Besides, the unxutils page indicates wc.exe is available. Are you looking for something that wc.exe does not handle?

Answer 4

Even easier, find /c. ex:

netstat -an | find /c "ESTABLISHED"

find /c: Displays only the count of lines containing the string.