#!/bin/env python import sys def wc(filename): try: fin = open(filename, 'r') text = fin.read() fin.close() except IOError: print "File %s not found" % filename sys.exit(0) nc = len(text) nl = text.count('\n') wordlist = text.split(None) nw = len(wordlist) print " %d %d %d %s" % (nl, nw, nc, filename) if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) > 1: for filename in sys.argv[1:]: wc(filename) else: print "usage wc textfile1 [textfile2 ...]"