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Word Counter - Count words and characters in text
You can use the
textutil CLI program along with wc to get an accurate wordcount. Here's the command:
To break it down, we're telling Now then, if you have multiple files, you can combine them on the fly and produce a collective word count thusly:
The new flag By the way, the commands above leave the original documents untouched.
Word Counter - Count words and characters in text
I appreciate the CLI solution ... but in this case, I think I'm going to have to say the GUI is somewhat easier and quicker for me -- especially since a given folder may hold much more than just the files I wish to count. So it's a quick drag-n-drop and that's it ... nice to know, though, that I can do this via SSH if the need arises!
using textedit or antiword to convert .doc to ascii
another thing to try is 'antiword'. it's a Free program which will convert word files to ascii text (even the tables usually come out decent). it would be interesting to compare antiword to textedit's output.
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