RE: tlug: Counting words

[Rob Bickel <rob@example.com>]

Thanks everyone for letting me know about wc.  I had never
heard of it before.  I'll also want to try to detex it
to get a more accurate reading, so I'll look for that, but
if anyone knows of a good source, it would help me if
you could let me know.

Rob

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, David Dibben wrote:

> 
> On 08-Sep-98 Rob Bickel wrote:
> > This is a simple question, but I can't remember how to do it.
> > What can I use to count the words in a tex file?  I don't really
> > care if it is absolutely accurate or not.  I just need a round
> > number.  
> 
> One thing you could do is get a program called detex which removes all the tex
> stuff from the file and then pipe the result into wc
> ie.
> 
> detex file.tex | wc -w
> 
> 
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