wc-cli

wc command line tool

Supported Flags

• -b --byte - Print byte count
• -w --word - Print word count
• -l --line - Print newline count

Usage

To read from a file use

wc-cli <flag> <filename...>

To read from the standard input use

cat <filename> | wc-cli <flag>

Basic Commands

1. Printing number of lines in a file

wc-cli -l <filename(s)>

You can pass input from stdin

cat <filename> | wc-cli

2. Printting number of bytes in a file

wc-cli -m <filename(s)>

3. Printing number of words in a file

wc-cli -w <filename(s)>

Improvements

1. Have more robust testing strategies, to test reading input from the standard input