Why not use 'wc [options] <filename' Obv. only works on a single filename.
On 10/05/2024 at 12:36, Laurent Lyaudet wrote:
Hello :), Thanks for your hard work :) I had a need for a variant of wordcount without filenames in the output, tuesday. https://github.com/LLyaudet/DevOrSysAdminScripts/blob/main/build_and_checks_dependencies/lines_filters.sh https://github.com/LLyaudet/DevOrSysAdminScripts/commit/f0cb3291de4ad0bc63e40baf31364d1af6849f12 I started to make a patch on GNU coreutils on that day, but I had to interrupt and continue today. Here is the patch joined to this email. Best summary of the feature is just to copy-paste my commit message: wc: Add an option -n --no-filenames. wc now has an option -n or --no-filenames to remove the filenames from the output lines. It is useful when used in conjunction with a single option -c, -m, -l, -L, or -w, since the result is a single number per line that can be easily used in shell (Bash) scripts, without having to pipe the result with cut. doc/coreutils.texi: Add option -n to documentation. NEWS: Mention the change option -n added and justify it. src/wc.c: Modify the source code to have an option -n. tests/wc/wc-no-filenames.sh: Test --no-filenames option for wc. Note that it should be a -f --filenames option if the default was different. If the default was configurable, then we should have -f --filenames -n --no-filenames options, like is possible in some of the latest versions of argparse in Python (argparse.BooleanOptionalAction). I don't know how to handle that in C code. Please accept my patch and improve upon it if needed. Best regards, Laurent Lyaudet
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