MCCWC - Monk Coding Challenge 1: wc tool in C

Clone of wc UNIX command tool written in C. Done as part of Monk Coding Challenge for CodingChallenges.FYI.

Parent repo: monk-coding-challenges

Challenge specification: Write Your Own wc Tool

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Monk Coding Challenge 1: wc tool in C

Prerequisites

• POSIX compliant operating system (any Linux will do)
• gcc

Build and run

make
./mccwc test.txt

Usage

Usage: mccwc [OPTION] ... [FILE]

Print newline, word, and byte counts for FILE. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of printable characters delimited by white space.

-c      print the byte count
-m      print the character count
-l      print the newline count
-w      print the wird count

Without FILE, read standard input

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.