Reference number: CH000820
What's an easy way to get a line count or
other stats of a file?
Question:
What's an easy way to get a line count or other stats of a
file?
Answer:Microsoft Windows users
Microsoft Word
Users who have Microsoft Word installed on their computer can
easily and quickly view statistics, such as the amount of pages,
paragraphs, lines, words, characters, and characters with spaces,
by following the below steps.
- Open Microsoft Word.
- Click File at the top of the Window.
- Click Properties.
- In the Properties window, click the Statistics
tab.
WordPerfect
Users who have Corel WordPerfect installed on their computer can
easily and quickly view statistics, such as characters, words,
sentences, lines, paragraphs, pages, and other averages of the
page by following the below steps.
- Open WordPerfect.
- Click File at the top of the Window.
- Click Properties.
- In the Properties window, click the Information
tab.
OpenOffice Writer
If you have OpenOffice installed on your computer, it too can
display a lot of statistics about a file. See our
below Linux / Unix users OpenOffice section for
steps on doing this.
In addition to the above suggestions, there are thousands of
different text editors
available on the Internet, many of them capable of displaying the
statistics of a file.
MS-DOS users
Below is a listing of different methods of getting statistic
information on files while in MS-DOS.
Edit
Although very limited, the edit
command is capable of displaying the amount of lines in a
file. To do this, follow the below steps.
- Edit the file you wish to view the amount of lines in.
- Go to the end of the file. If the file is a large file, you
can quickly get to the end of the file by pressing
CTRL + END on your keyboard.
In addition to the above recommendations, there are several
third-party MS-DOS utilities designed specifically to count the amount of
lines in a file and get other statistics.
Click here to open a external search for these utilities.
Linux / Unix users
OpenOffice Writer
Users who have OpenOffice installed on their computer can
easily and quickly view statistics, such as the number of pages,
tables, graphics, OLE objects, paragraphs, words, characters, and
lines, by following the below steps.
- Open OpenOffice Writer.
- Click File at the top of the Window.
- Click Properties.
- In the Properties window, click the Statistics
tab.
From the command line, users have several different ways to count
and get statistics about files on their computer. Below are a few
examples.
wc command - The wc, or word
count, command is one of the easiest and fastest methods of getting
the amount of characters, lines, and words in a file. See this page
for additional information and examples of this command.
pico command - Although
limited, running the pico command and displaying your current
position can give you line and character information. If you're
wanting to see how many lines are in a file, go to the end of the
document and press CTRL + C or ^C to get the current position.
vi command /
vim command - The vi and vim and
its variants are also capable of displaying line and character
counts.
In addition to the above commands, users can write shell scripts,
Perl scripts, and/or any other
type of scripts or programs to get any details about the file they
wish.
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