Command to find line length in a text file

[jbmjlm10]

Hello,
Is there an AIX or UNIX command to find the length of each line of a text file? The wc command does not give us that option. Thank you for your help.

 

[p5wizard]

awk can do that:

awk '{printf "%6d ", length($0); print}' /path/to/file

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[khalidaaa]

Try this script:

#!/bin/sh

line="Test"

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
  echo "Usage: $0 filename"
else
  if [ -r $1 ]
  then
    while read line
    do
      echo "$line" | wc -c
    done < $1
  fi
fi

just copy this script and give it a name (eg: countlines)

then issue this command to make it executable:

# chmod +x countlines

Then run it passing to it the file name to be examined:

# countlines testfile

Hope this will do the job for you guys

Regards
Khalid