wf(1)
π wf(1) β General Commands Manual π
okay bestie, pull up a chair π«Ά you're looking at wf, the Simple word frequency counter β and no, it's not giving "boring old utility", it's giving "quietly iconic". Let's get into it.
β¨ NAME β¨
wf β Simple word frequency counter. that's it. that's the whole vibe. π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
wf [OPTION]... [FILE]...
yeah that's the whole shape of it. options, then files. simple, clean, main character energy. β¨
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
so here's the tea π β wf scans a text file and counts the frequency of words through the whole text. like, the whole text. every word, everywhere, counted. obsessed.
the intention? ( with _a_lot_of_enhancements_ ) it's meant to correlate text by subject by comparing word frequencies. iykyk β that's the actual plan, enhancements and all. π
π OPTIONS π
okay so wf options are in traditional POSIX one letter options, and POSIX style options start with a single '-'. not a double dash situation for the short ones, bestie β single dash, single letter. periodt. π
-h,--helpβ Will print some help. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it flawlessly. π-s,--sortβ Sorts output. because chaos is not the vibe, alphabetized is. β¨-c,--caseβ Ignore case.TheandtheandTHE? same word, bestie, we don't discriminate here. π-n,--nocountβ Don't output frequency count. just the words, no numbers attached. minimalism. iconic.-m,--mincountβ Minimum frequency output. filters out the flops that didn't show up enough times. π₯-l,--minlenβ Minimum fragment length. tiny little word fragments? not on our watch. π§-w,--perwordβ Output words tied to fragment. the words come attached to their fragment, hand in hand. π«Ά
π AUTHORS π
Marcelo Corbani de Barros β <marcelo@async.com.br> π
Thanks to these people for making this possible:
- Nicklas Larsson
<whybill@linux.nu>for this man page. πΈ <clayne@------.com>for many improvements. β
genuinely, thank you both, this page would not exist without you. π
π URL π
http://www.async.com.br/~marcelo
go say hi, it's giving founder energy. π
π quick vibe check before you go: everything above is exactly what the page says β no extra lore, no invented behavior. don't come for me with "but does it do X" bc if it's not written here, bestie, i simply cannot confirm it. π
okay that's the whole page!! π this was wf 0.4, dated 15-Jan-2008, and honestly for a 2008 release it's still serving. slay. go count some words, you've got this. π¦β¨π
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 43: wf 0.41-37.fc43 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- fedora 44: wf 0.41-38.fc44 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms