This project is a C implementation of the Unix wc (word count) command. It provides functionality to count bytes, lines, words, and characters in a file or from standard input.
To compile and run this program, you need:
- GCC
gcc -o wc wc.c
./wc [OPTION] [FILE]
If no FILE is specified, read standard input.
Options:
- -c : print the byte counts
- -l : print the newline counts
- -w : print the word counts
- -m : print the character counts
Without any options, the program prints line, word, and byte counts.
Count lines, words, and bytes in a file:
./wc test.txt
Output:
7145 58164 342190 test.txt
Count only words in a file:
./wc -w test.txt
Output:
58164 test.txt
Count bytes from standard input:
cat test.txt | ./wc -c
Output:
342190