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Re: wc needs --human-readable
From: |
Hans-Bernhard Broeker |
Subject: |
Re: wc needs --human-readable |
Date: |
29 Mar 2002 19:00:55 GMT |
Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gentlemen, consulting the wc(1) man page, one sees no option to print
> things out in easy to understand English, etc. E.g. it is only a
> computer whiz who can grok
> $ wc .emacs
> 712 2768 26633 .emacs
Really? Does it qualify me as a whiz that I know that know every line
must have at least one word, and every word have at least one
character, and therefore nlines<=nwords<=nchars must always hold?
> why can't one get it to say which ones are lines, which ones are
> words, which ones are characters, if one insists.
You can, in a way. You can call 'wc -l' & friends to answer the
questions individually.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.