I want to find the number of 8 letter words that do not contain the letter “e” in a number of text files (*.txt). In the process I ran into two issues: my lack of understanding in quantifiers and how to exclude characters. I’m quite new to the Unix terminal, but this is what I have tried: I need to
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Count the number of characters, words and lines in PowerShell
In Linux we have the “wc” command which allows us to count the number of characters, words and lines in a file. But do we have a similar cmdlet in PowerShell. The Measure-Object cmdlet I tried could only count the number of lines but not the characters and words. Answer It counts the number of characters in the file. It
How do I find the number of all .txt files in a directory and all sub directories using specifically the find command and the wc command?
So far I have this: I’m not quite sure how to use wc to find out the exact number of files. When using the command above, all the .txt files show up, but I need the exact number of files with the .txt extension. Please don’t suggest using other commands as I’d like to specifically use find and wc. Thanks
How to get lines of a file with exactly 3 characters in Linux
I need a command to find the lines of a file that have 3 characters. I do the command wc -w field.txt to list how many lines, but now I need to know the lines with 3 characters, exactly. Answer This will count (-c) the number of lines which match the regex (-E) “^.{3}$”, which is “start of line, exactly