Re: Word Count for 100 Files?
Assuming:
- You had UNIX/Linux experience
- You have access to a UNIX/Linux machine (or Cygwin in Windows)
- You knew a bit about BASH script programming (I'm trying to remember the
specifics from a class from 6 months ago)
- Your documents were plaintext, instead of a document (w) formatting
codes
Actually, if you can get the docs into HTML, you can do this too. See below.
The BASH command "wc" (word count) might be a way to go. You'd need to:
- set up a small script/extended statement to list the file names
- open each file
If you're dealing with HTML, use
lynx -dump filename.html
to get plain (countable) text.
- pipe the file through WC
- dump the number of words (with identifier text) into another text file.
Gimme a little bit of time to review and I can post specifics -- if this is
an avenue that you'd pursue.
Minimally, it could be as simple as:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `ls *.html`
do
echo $i
lynx -dump $i | wc
done
to look at all HTML files, convert them to text, count the
characters/words/lines, and print the name and the counts
for each file to the screen.
Eric
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