WC-ALPHA

This is a custom version of the Unix command line tool wc.

Tools and languages used for this project

         

  Java            IntelliJ        

Usage

Example

This is an example of the usage of the command line tool.

java -jar wc-alpha-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -l myfile.txt

p.s. -l stands for lines

You can set an alias for the command line tool

alias wc='java -jar wc-alpha-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar'

You can change "wc" to the name you want to call the command line tool

Additionally you can place the alias line in your .bashrc to make it permanent

Easy run example

In order to test the program easily you can use the following commands:

Enter the playground directory

cd playground

Then run the reload script

./reload.sh

The code you've run above counts the number of lines, words and bytes in the given file placed in the playground directory.

Available Options

-c - Count the number of bytes -l - Count the number of lines -w - Count the number of words -m - Count the number of characters

License

MIT