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a simple tool for people that need to count characters and words of multiple documents from command line interface.
Supports: *.txt and *.doc filetype
Prerequisites
- a linux distro
- sudo privileges
- unzip package
- catdoc package
Installation
- download this script
- open your CLI and type:
sudo mv linux_doc_words_counter /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/linux_doc_words_counter
Usage
linux_doc_words_counter /path/to/archive.zip
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