I have used:
tr -dc [:alpha:] < $fileDoc | wc -c
to count all letters,
tr -dc ' ' < $fileDoc | wc -c
to count all spaces,
tr -dc '\n' < $fileDoc | wc -c
to count all new lines in a text document.
What I would like to do now is to do now is count all other characters in the document as I will call every thing else.
Here is the text from the document:
Hello this is a test text document.
123
!@#
Is there a way to delete everything [:alpha:]
, , and
\n
found and count the remaining characters?