Pdf Word Count Ubuntu

Word count in termimal. How can we get the number of lines or number of words in a file? The most easiest way to count the number of lines, words, and characters in text file is to use the Linux command “wc” in terminal. The command “wc” basically means “word count” and with different optional parameters one can use it to count the number of lines, words, and characters in a text file. The app includes a spell check and word count, and can export your document to HTML, PDF and ODT. Focus mode highlights your last sentence, and full screen mode removes the distractions of other apps. The command wc which is used for counting doesn't work directly with Office files. For example I created a writer.odt file and I wrote inside 7 words. Then i tried wc -w file.odt the output was 136 which is not logical at all. If you try the above on any file you can just wc -w without problems. Now my question is how to use wc command with Libre/OpenOffice? It's important to point out that the PDF count of pages may be affected by its inner objects compression. However, when it's not the case, the number of pages could be present after './N' or './Pages'.

wc
Original author(s)	Joe Ossanna (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Developer(s)	Various open-source and commercial developers
Initial release	November 3, 1971; 49 years ago
Operating system	Unix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, MSX-DOS, IBM i
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Command

wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-likeoperating systems. The program reads either standard input or a list of computer files and generates one or more of the following statistics: newline count, word count, and byte count. If a list of files is provided, both individual file and total statistics follow.

Example[edit]

Ubuntu Count Lines In File

Sample execution of wc:

The first column is the count of newlines, meaning that the text file foo has 40 newlines while bar has 2294 newlines- resulting in a total of 2334 newlines. The second column indicates the number of words in each text file showing that there are 149 words in foo and 16638 words in bar – giving a total of 16787 words. The last column indicates the number of characters in each text file, meaning that the file foo has 947 characters while bar has 97724 characters – 98671 characters all in all.

Newer versions of wc can differentiate between byte and character count. This difference arises with Unicode which includes multi-byte characters. The desired behaviour is selected with the -c or -m options.

History[edit]

wc is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX.1 and the Single Unix Specification.^[1] It appeared in Version 1 Unix.^[2]

GNUwc used to be part of the GNU textutils package; it is now part of GNU coreutils. The version of wc bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.^[3]

Ubuntu Count File Number

A wc command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2.^[4]

The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project^[5] and the UnxUtils collection of nativeWin32ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.^[6]

The wc command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.^[7]

Usage[edit]

wc -c <filename> prints the byte count
wc -l <filename> prints the line count (note that if the last line does not have n, it will not be counted)
wc -m <filename> prints the character count
wc -w <filename> prints the word count
wc -L <filename> prints the length of the longest line (GNU extension)

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