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Count bytes and characters with wc
4 years
Count bytes and characters with wc
wc -c filename == counts the bytes
wc -m filename == counts the characters
this can be combined with other commands like grep, awk, sed
example with sed:
sed -n '1p' filename | wc -c
the above will print the first line from filename and count the bytes in that line
sed tricks to replace multi blank spaces and tabs with single space
4 years
Replace all multi-blankspaces (more than one spaces/tabs) in file with mono-blankspace (one space):
sed 's/[<space>][<tab>][<space>][<tab>]*/ /g' filename
can also be:
sed 's/[<space>][<tab>][<space>][<tab>]*/ /g' filename > newfilename
note: g in the end means GLOBAL
In the above samples, <space> means ‘ ‘ (empty space) and <tab> means ‘ ‘ (tab key press).
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