implement wc CLI

Author: AhmadHmedann

implement-shell-tools/wc/wc.py

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+import argparse
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog= "wc",
+                                 description="Count lines, words, and characters in one or more files.")
+
+parser.add_argument("-c",action="store_true",help="Count the number of characters.")
+parser.add_argument("-w",action="store_true", help="Count the number of words.")
+parser.add_argument("-l",action="store_true",help="Count the number of lines.")
+parser.add_argument("paths",nargs="+",help="Path(s) to the file(s) to process.")
+
+
+total_results = {
+   
+}
+
+
+args =parser.parse_args()
+paths= args.paths;
+no_flags = not args.c and not args.w and not args.l
+
+for path in paths:
+    with open(path, "r") as f:
+        content = f.read()
+
+    count_lines = len(content.splitlines())
+    count_words = len(content.split())
+    count_characters = len(content)
+
+    results = {}
+
+    if no_flags or args.l:
+        results["count_lines"] = count_lines
+
+    if no_flags or args.w:
+        results["count_words"] = count_words
+
+    if no_flags or args.c:
+        results["count_characters"] = count_characters
+
+    for key, value in results.items():
+        total_results[key] = total_results.get(key, 0) + value
+
+    print(" ".join(map(str, results.values())), path)
+
+if len(paths) > 1:
+    print(" ".join(map(str, total_results.values())), "total")
+