https://github.com/freaky/cw

A Rust wc clone
https://github.com/freaky/cw

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A Rust wc clone

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/freaky/cw
• Owner: Freaky
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-01-07T00:02:17.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-06T03:39:48.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-24T09:19:56.994Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 66.4 KB
• Stars: 103
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# cw - Count Words

A fast `wc` clone in Rust.

## Synopsis

```

-% cw --help

cw 0.5.0

Thomas Hurst 

Count Words - word, line, character and byte count

USAGE:

    cw [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [input]...

FLAGS:

    -c, --bytes              Count bytes

    -m, --chars              Count UTF-8 characters instead of bytes

    -h, --help               Prints help information

    -l, --lines              Count lines

    -L, --max-line-length    Count bytes (default) or characters (-m) of the longest line

    -V, --version            Prints version information

    -w, --words              Count words

OPTIONS:

        --files0-from     Read input from the NUL-terminated list of filenames in the given file.

        --files-from       Read input from the newline-terminated list of filenames in the given file.

        --threads             Number of counting threads to spawn [default: 1]

ARGS:

    ...    Input files

-% cw Dickens_Charles_Pickwick_Papers.xml

 3449440 51715840 341152640 Dickens_Charles_Pickwick_Papers.xml

```

## Performance

Counts of multiple files may be accelerated by use of the `--threads` option:

```

  'xargs