[accessiblelinux] Re: word counts
- From: <aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vilmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:45:47 -0400
thanks,
that worked. I had tried various other abreviations (word, words, wordcount,
countwords, wdcount, etc) to no success. I forgot to try simple initials.
Aparrently, wordcount is a valid command provided by the European Melecular
Biology Office Statistics Suite (EMBOSS): but I don't have a melecular biology
background and wouldn't have use for the remainder of the emboss package.
Anyway, thank you:-)
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:29:13 -0300
From: vilmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [accessiblelinux] word counts
Hi,
You can try:
wc -w file, where file is the name of the file.
The option -w of the command wc, counts the number of words of a file.
On 03/20/2010 09:45 AM, aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
greetings,
I have a question about wordcount in linux. I've been using gedit and
I've noticed that words with apostrophes (') get counted as two words.
example:
if I type
"I don't know."
into gedit and go to the last entry in the tools menu (document
statistics, I think) it says there are four words in the document ("I
[1] + don't [1] + know [1]." = 3). I looked through the preference
settings and tried googling the issue, but can't find anything on if
it's possible to alter this behavior.
does anyone know if there is a setting that can modify this behavior?
Or, is there a command-line tool that can count the words in a textfile?
I know open office has a word count feature as well, but at the moment
orca speach inOO is spotty with my system. I am running Ubuntu8.04 LTS
and plan to upgrade to lucid when it's officially released.
thanks:-)
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