How To Get A Line Count Or Other Stats Of A File

Many programs and tools provide features to count the number of lines and words, known as line count and word count, in a document. Below is a list of these programs and tools, and instructions on how to get line and word stats.

Paste any text into our online text tool to get full statistics on the submitted text. Below is a few of the stats our online tool gives you about your text.

Online tools.

Microsoft Windows users.

MS-DOS and Windows command line users.

Linux and Unix users.

First longest word - The first found longest word in your text.

First shortest word - The first shortest word in your text.

Character count - Total characters in your text.

Word count - Total words in your text.

Avg word length - The average length of words in your text.

Top words - The most common words in your text with no filters.

Top non-common words - The most common words with a filter that removes common words like “and” in your text.

Sentence count - Total sentences in your text.

Longest sentence - The longest sentence in all your text.

Avg. sentence length - The average sentence length in your text.

Line count - The total lines in your text.

Longest line - The longest line found in your text.

Vowels - Total vowel count in your text.

Consonants - Total consonants in your text.

Spaces - Total spaces in your text.

Uppercase characters - Total uppercase characters in your text.

Lowercase characters - Total lowercase characters in your text.

Non-alpanumeric - The number of non-alphanumeric characters in your text.

Total Bytes - Total bytes your text requires.

Total Bits - The total number of bits your text requires.

Users of Microsoft Word can view statistics, such as the number of pages, paragraphs, lines, words, and characters, by following the steps below.

Word 2007 and later

Word 2003 and earlier

Users of Corel WordPerfect can view statistics such as the number of characters, words, sentences, lines, paragraphs, pages, and other document information by following the steps below.

If you have OpenOffice installed on your computer, it too can display lots of statistics about a file. See the Linux and Unix users section below for steps on getting these stats.

There are also thousands of different text editors available on the Internet, many of them capable of displaying the statistics of a file’s contents.

Below is a listing of different methods of getting statistic information on files while in MS-DOS.

Using the find command below lists every line that does not contain “&fake&” which in every case is not found. Because this command lists each line containing the string of text, you’d get an accurate list of how many text lines are in the file.

find /v /c “&fake&” programs.txt

Although limited, the edit command can display the number of lines in a file. To do this, follow the steps below.

There also exist several third-party MS-DOS utilities designed specifically to count the amount of lines in a file and get other statistics.

Users of OpenOffice can view statistics, such as the number of pages, tables, graphics, OLE objects, paragraphs, words, characters, and lines, by following the steps below.

From the command line, users have different ways to count and get statistics about files on their computer. Below are a few examples.

wc command - The wc (word count) command is one of the easiest and fastest methods of getting the amount of characters, lines, and words in a file. See this page for additional information and examples of this command.

pico command - Although limited, running the pico command and displaying your current position can give you line and character information. Go to the end of the document and press Ctrl+C or ^C to view the current position and total lines.

vi command and vim command - The vi and vim and its variants are also capable of displaying the line and character counts.

Also, users can write shell scripts, Perl scripts, or programs to analyze a file’s contents.