WC Utility

The wc utility is a Python3 implementation that mimics the Unix wc command. It counts newlines, words, characters, and bytes in files and standard input, providing users with essential text processing capabilities.

• Python 3.x

python wc.py [options] [file ...]

• -l : Count lines
• -w : Count words
• -c : Count bytes
• -m : Count characters

python wc.py -l test.txt   # Count lines in test.txt
python wc.py -w test.txt   # Count words in test.txt
python wc.py -c test.txt   # Count bytes in test.txt

echo "Hello World" | python wc.py -w   # Count words from stdin
cat test.txt | python wc.py -l   # Count lines from stdin

The default output format is tab-separated values showing counts for lines, words, characters, and bytes.

• The line count uses len(line) on bytes lines.
• Word counting uses split to determine word boundaries.
• When using stdin mode with no arguments, the utility will print 'not enough args'.

The repository includes test.txt as a sample file to test the utility's features.