fcount

Description

Count the number of fields (columns) in every line of a delimited text file.

Available command-line options:

fcount --help

Usage: fcount [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Print field (column) count and number of lines for each count.
More than one FILE can be specified.

  -d, --delimiter=DELIM  the delimiting character for the input FILE(s)
                         (the default is a TAB)
  -H, --header           print a header line with the output counts
  -l, --line-count       print the record-count only (like wc -l)
  -q, --quiet            do not output counts, but return 2 if
                         multiple field counts are detected
                         (i.e. the file is inconsistent)
  -C, --csv              parse CSV files
  -Q, --csv-quote        CSV quoting character (ignored unless --csv)

Building fcount

The following projects have made fcount possible:

• libcsv - Version 3.0.3 of libcsv is included with fcount.
• gnulib - The getline module is included with fcount for portability.

Please consider contributing to those projects if you find fcount useful.

Note that this git repository does not include a configure script like a distribution tarball normally does. If you don't want to bother with installing autoconf and automake, then download a distribution package and run configure:

./configure

If you want the fcount binary installed in your $HOME/bin, you should run something like:

./configure --prefix=$HOME

If you're building from a copy of this git repository, you'll need to have autoconf and automake installed on your system, and run the following command to generate a configure script:

autoreconf -i

...and subsequently run configure as mentioned before.

After configure completes successfully, you can do the usual:

make
make check
make install

Author

Miguel Gualdron (dev at gualdron.com).