CLI version

[clarcharr]

Considering how we have projects like ripgrep, exa, and fd which aim to oxidise common shell utils, it would be great to create an alternative to the wc command that uses bytecount (I vote to name the binary ct, short for count).

Considering how the hard work has already been done for the actual counting, all that really would have to be done is parse command-line arguments with clap or similar. While we don't have an actual "word" counting functionality, 99% of the time I see wc is via wc -l anyway, and it seems pretty straightforward to make a binary that will do this with bytecount.

[llogiq]

Counter-proposal: Let's call it lc for line-count.

[clarcharr]

Counter-counter-proposal, it can count UTF-8 chars too.

[Veedrac]

Is there really a need for a better wc though?

[clarcharr]

@Veedrac not really, but it's still a cool thing to make

[llogiq]

So I think we'd want to use the glob crate for file retrieval. We should accept two arguments: -l (default) or -c (UTF-8 chars) and a glob.

[Veedrac]

Thanks to Freaky for making this!

https://github.com/Freaky/cw