wc-cli

A small command-line tool written in Go to count words, lines, and bytes/characters from files or standard input.

Features

• Count words, lines, and bytes.
• Read from files or STDIN.

Installation

Build locally:

make build

Usage

Basic usage:

wc-cli [flags] [file...]

If no files are provided, wc-cli reads from standard input.

Common flags:

• -w Count words
• -l Count lines
• -c Count bytes

Combine flags to display multiple metrics.

Examples

Count words in a file:

wc-cli -w file.txt

Count lines and bytes for multiple files:

wc-cli -l -c file1.txt file2.txt

Pipe input:

cat file.txt | wc-cli -w