bug#46346: wc --human-readable or --verbose

[Chris Elvidge]

On 06/02/2021 01:38 pm, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> wc needs a --verbose option. Else one is forced to do:
>
> $ file=e.html; echo $file:; for i in bytes chars lines words; do echo -en $i:\\t; 
> wc --$i < $file; done
> e.html:
> bytes:  31655
> chars:  29141
> lines:  643
> words:  1275
>
> I mean sometimes we want to send the output to a real person, and
> currently all wc makes is:
>
> $ wc e.html
>    643  1275 31655 e.html
> $ file=e.html; for i in bytes chars lines words; do wc --$i < $file; done
> 31655
> 29141
> 643
> 1275
>
> So there needs to be a --verbose or --human-readable like du(1)... oops
> I don't mean saying 234M... yet.

Or:
wch () { [[ "$1" && -f "$1" ]] || return 1; awk '{print 
"file:\t"$5"\nlines:\t"$1"\nwords:\t"$2"\nchars:\t"$3"\nbytes:\t"$4}' < 
<(wc -lwcm $1); }



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Chris Elvidge