ncount

```shell ❯ ncount --help ncount 0.5.1 A word count program

USAGE: ncount.exe [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [paths]...

FLAGS: -d, --detail Print detailed document information -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information -v, --verbose Print detailed document information (alias for detail)

OPTIONS: -f, --filter Filter results by heading

ARGS: ... Paths (or globs) to be read ```

There is certain information we care in fiction. The number of words, the length of paragraphs, etc. Everything else is just noise. Specifically designed to work on Markdown files, excepting headings and comments from the word count.

Usage

shell ❯ ncount .\src\ -d § Count ¶ Avg ¶ Long ¶ Words Total Chapter I: Die Walküre 1.1 44 39 112 1723 1723 From the Book of Shadows 10 33 76 332 2055 1.2 60 33 109 1993 4048 1.3 43 34 109 1472 5520 1.4 56 30 102 1725 7245 1.5 16 55 123 884 8129 1.6 41 46 105 1891 10020 1.7 31 40 126 1248 11268 1.8 63 34 126 2147 13415 Chapter II: The Chosen 2.1 57 39 117 2251 15666 2.2 42 35 96 1488 17154 2.3 7 33 111 237 17391 Chapter III: ??? 3.1 46 36 112 1676 19067 3.2 45 38 108 1727 20794 Errata 3 19 27 57 20851 564 36 126 20851

The --detail flag causes paragraph information to be printed, including paragraph count, longest and average length, while the --filter flag permits the user to focus only on a given heading. For example:

shell ❯ ncount .\src\ -f "2." § Words Total 2.1 2251 2251 2.2 1488 3739 2.3 237 3976