ALC(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

alc — it's from ea-utils bestie, and it does approximate line counts for each file 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

alc [-o] <file1> [<file2>] ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: you wanna know how many lines are in a file, but you do not have the time or the patience to actually read the whole entire thing. That's the moment alc shows up, main character energy, and gives you an approximate line count for each file 🦋

By default it's lowkey trying to be somewhat compatible with wc -l, so if you're used to that vibe you'll feel right at home. It's giving "wc -l but make it ✨approximate✨" — no cap.

Here's the whole menu, no skips, no summarising, we eat every option 👑

• -o|--only — output the line count only, for a single file. Just the number, nothing else, minimal queen behaviour 💅
• -w|--window <int> — reads <int> bytes from the head, the mid, and the tail. Sneaky little sampling moment 🔥
• -s|--segs <int> — divides the file and the window into <int> segments. So many lil pieces 🎀

ngl bestie, the whole thing is approximate — it is literally in the name, it's in the description, it's the entire point. Don't come for her if the number isn't exact, she never claimed to be precise 🙈

and that's the whole page, fr fr — nothing skipped, nothing invented, every flag accounted for 💜

This lil gem is alc version 1.1.2, and she's been out here slaying since July 2015 🌈⭐ if you're reading this, the man page section is User Commands (that's section 1, iykyk), so go forth and count those lines approximately, you icon 👑💖