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How to count words in a line
In Bash and wc: IFS=$'\n' while read line; do wc -w <<< "$line" done < file.txt wc counts lines, words, bytes in files. With a shell loop you can make it count words in a line.
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rm -iR does not work inside a loop
1. Why you example did not work as expected rm's prompts need STDIN to receive your feedback. In your example you used STDIN to pipe a list to the while loop though, thus rm was getting the answers t …
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