2023-09-08 20:27:32 +00:00
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Desiderata
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- Simple: Simple operation in terms of counting spaces and \n.
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- Avoid "off by one" errors; make sure an empty file is reported as such.
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- Words as space or enter, followed by nonspace, followed by space? Make sure two spaces aren't two words?
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- Keep Linux only.
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- No flags. Only count words, not lines.
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- Allow piping, as well as reading files.
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- Wonder how normal utilities handle this.
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- Could use zig? => Not for now
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Steps:
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2023-09-08 22:02:31 +00:00
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- [x] Look into how C utilities both read from stdin and from files.
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- [x] Program first version of the utility
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2023-09-08 20:27:32 +00:00
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- [ ] Compare with other implementations, see how they do it, after I've read my own version
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2023-09-08 22:02:31 +00:00
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- [ ] Compare with gnu utils,
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2023-09-08 20:27:32 +00:00
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- Compare with musl/busybox implementations,
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- Maybe make some pull requests, if I'm doing something better?
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2023-09-08 22:02:31 +00:00
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- [ ] Install to ww, but check that ww is empty (installing to wc2 or smth would mean that you don't save that many keypresses vs wc -w)
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- [ ] ...
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