wc

[Patrick McCrae]

Hi, there -

I know it is not a bug in the wc utility ... but maybe you also handle 
feature requests (if you don't, please let me know where to address them 
to).

I would like to have an option (e.g. -n) to obtain from wc only its 
numeric output - /without /the trailing file name. I guess I am thinking 
of something like a non-verbose output mode in which only the requested 
bare essentials are returned. This would make further processing of wc's 
output much more convenient and would reduce the need for further piping 
into cut or other such utilities.

Clearly, the non-verbose option should combine with all existing 
invocation options to wc, such as

   wc -w -n file
   to return only the number of words in file etc.


Let me know what you think ...

Thanks and regards -

Pat
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