Wortzahl! Count words fast

wz is a faster alternative to GNU wc with UTF8 support and human readable output, written in Rust

Installation

Cargo

sh cargo install wz cargo install --git https://github.com/Altair-Bueno/wz.git

Features

It's fast!

wz is heavily optimized for performance. Even if you are counting multiple files, thanks to [rayon]. Just look at the benchmarks

Human readable and machine readable formats

Output the results on a nice table, or pipe them to another program that reads JSON. Stop messing with sed and awk!

sh $ wz *(.) --output json | jq .total.lines 1470

Multiple encoding support

Characters and line lengths are count using UTF8 or UTF16[^1] encoding, meaning that files with non ASCII characters are count correctly

Multiple line breaks support

Got a file from an old Macintosh? Change the line break to carriage returns ('\r')

sh wz macintosh.txt -n cr

Performance

See BENCH.md

Usage

Run wz --help to see the full list of options