wc Coding Challenges

This repo is created as a part of the codingchallenges.fyi challenges. This repo specifically tackle the challenge of replicate the CLI command wc.

The Challenge

Replicate these functionality from the Unix command line tool wc:

  -c, --bytes
      print the byte counts 
  -l, --lines
      print the newline counts 
  -w, --words
      print the word counts 
  -m, --chars
      print the character counts 

As part of the challenge we will be using the provided test text file.

Development

To setup this project you will have to have uv installed.

To run the commands it is simply running:

uv run main.py -h

To run the testing suite you will call:

uv run pytest -s -v

To run the linter you will call:

uv run ruff check --fix .