How to Modify the Number of Characters in a Line of Text

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Tip 1 - How to print the number of characters in each line of a text file

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dario Seghezzi | permalink

I would like to print the number of characters in each line of a text file using a unix command. I know it is simple with powershell gc abc.txt | % {$_.length} but I need unix command.

For further reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8786634/how-to-print-the-number-of-characters-in-each-line-of-a-text-file ^[1]

Tip 2 - Limiting the number of characters per line with CSS

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Daniel Flood | permalink

I have a paragraph of text: <p>Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem

For further reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2757483/limiting-the-number-of-characters-per-line-with-css ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to find android TextView number of characters per line?

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by louisa gravelle | permalink

So I have a TextView in android that has the width of the whole length of the screen and a padding of dip 5. How can I calculate the number of characters that will fit a single line on the screen? I

For further reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5970640/how-to-find-android-textview-number-of-characters-per-line ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to count the number of a specific character in each line?

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by monica oppes | permalink

I was wondering how to count the number of a specific character in each line by some text processing utilities? For example, to count " in each line of the following text "hello!" Thank you! The

For further reading: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18736/how-to-count-the-number-of-a-specific-character-in-each-line ^[4]