On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Kevin Ivory wrote:
Hi coreutils team,
wc gives a grand total when analyzing several files.
It would be helpful to have a command line option that
returns only the total. It should be able to combine
with -c/-l/-w to return only the total characters /
total lines / total words.
It's usually preferable to combine the features of several coreutils
rather than add new code. In this case the desired result can be
obtained with:
$ wc *.txt | tail -n 1
485 1861 13078 total
If required, this could be wrapped up in a shell script or alias to save
typing if used frequently.
Cheers,
Phil
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