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Count bytes and characters with wc

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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

1 year
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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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