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(DIR) Post #ATux8ru9BoXAWACeLA by nicole@pkm.social
2023-03-23T20:00:05Z
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#TIL how to get a word count from all files in a directory (including those in sub-folders) from the terminal:```find . -type f -exec wc -w {} + | tail -n1```... through which I also learned that in my main @obsidian vault, I have written 584,540,542 words. :O
(DIR) Post #ATuyDjs2aSKV0F6VfM by therealfakemoot@techhub.social
2023-03-23T20:12:08Z
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@nicole find has to be in my top three, next to vim and tmuxI use it almost every day, -exec is great because it's just map() for your filesystem
(DIR) Post #ATuysjulKQv10nvZpI by curtismchale@mastodon.social
2023-03-23T20:19:31Z
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@nicole There is also the Novel Word Count plugin that gives you totals for each folder in your Obsidian vault
(DIR) Post #ATuzS6g2gpBbkCuHqa by wjd@pkm.social
2023-03-23T20:22:23Z
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@nicole I always overlook `find`, I think the slight differences in syntax between it and other *nix tools was holding me back. I need to get more familiar with it and stop trying to cobble things together using grep and ls.
(DIR) Post #ATv0C8x4Z4bc7UpBcu by nicole@pkm.social
2023-03-23T20:34:16Z
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@curtismchale Yeah, I actually use that in my other vault but it hasn't been working for me recently. Haven't yet done the tinkering around to figure out what it's not playing well with.
(DIR) Post #ATv89uchfMcCjckCAK by astrophoenix@pkm.social
2023-03-23T22:03:21Z
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@nicole that will pick up all files though; do you have images or other things as well?```find . -name \*.md -exec wc -w {} + | tail -n1```the `-type f`one, for me, output 6,583,732 whereas the `-name` one output 713,164