wcjs-cli

A simple and fast CLI word counter built with Node.js. It can count total words in a file and also report the frequency of a specified word.

✨ Features

• 📄 Count total words in a text file
• 🔍 Get frequency of a specific word
• ⚡ Lightweight and fast
• 🧰 Works as a global CLI or via npx

📦 Installation

Global installation

npm install -g wcjs-cli

Using npx (no install required)

npx wcjs-cli filename.txt

🚀 Usage

Count total words in a file

wcjs-cli file.txt

Output:

Words: 120

Count frequency of a specific word

wcjs-cli file.txt hello

Output:

hello: 5

🛠 Example

wcjs-cli article.txt javascript

This command counts how many times the word "javascript" appears in article.txt.

📁 How it works

• Reads file content using Node.js fs module
• Splits text using whitespace
• Supports simple word matching

📌 Requirements

• Node.js v16 or later

📄 License

MIT License

👤 Author

Noor Ul Ain