Do you know a similar program for wc (unix word count command) on Windows ?

Question

A quick search gives me tawbaware wc, but it does not accept stdout as input stream, meaning I can not use pipe within a DOS session.

Note: I can not install cygwin or use powershell (which would have allowed a '|foreach-object {(get-content $_).count}')

unxutils and and gnuwin32 Packages might have this feature...

Answer 1

You can use the original "wc", built for windows: it is part of the coreutils package.

Answer 2

Well, I'm sorry to disagree, but unxutils do have a wc.exe

Give it a try!

Cheers,

Answer 3

My unxutils pack has word count:

C:\Java\vssWorkspace\java\portlets_core>wc -l C:\Users\malp\AppData\Local\Temp__portlets41366.html 79717 C:\Users\malp\AppData\Local\Temp__portlets41366.html

Besides, the unxutils page indicates wc.exe is available. Are you looking for something that wc.exe does not handle?

Answer 4

I know nothing about it, but a quick google search for "windows wc" returned this: http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/wc.1.asp. Itappears to be freeware, but I'm not positive.

Answer 5

It also seems to be part of the cygwin install

Answer 6

There is also WinXs 4.2, it's shareware, so you could see if it'll do what you need it to.

Could you install a script language for this? It might be overkill, but if it gets the job done with a minimum of fuss...

Answer 7

For unix tools on windows your options are:

cygwin - just about everythign for unix, complex install and requires a dll to provide unix api. Can be problems mixing tools built with different versions of cygwin.dll

Unixtools - not all the tools provided by cygwin but compiled natively

msys - similair to unixtools, originally just a few build tools needed to go with mingw (native version of gcc), now has almost all of the cygwin tools

ch - pretty much all the unix tools, compiled natively. And a shell which includes a 'c' interpreter. The standard version is free (beer) but not open source.

uwin - free from ATT, includes the korn shell if you like that sort of thing.

mks a Commercial port of unix tools. Rather expensive given the free versions available.

Answer 8

getgnuwin32 facilitates downloading and installing of gnuwin32 (which certainly has wc utility).

Answer 9

Simply do it in C. A few lines of code...

Answer 10

Here's a good option, too -- roll your own in Perl:

http://en.literateprograms.org/Word_count_%28Perl%29

Luckily someone gave you the source. This is what I'm trying now, to avoid installing more packages. A simple machine is a healthy machine.