Some tools for text processing
Personalized "wc" tool to show data more clearly. One item per line, numbers have thousand separator.
Add the following line into your ~/.bashrc file:
alias wc="/path/to/wc.sh"
wc <file1> <file2> ...
$ seq 200 > a
$ seq 1200 > b
$ wc a b
<< a >>
lines 200
words 200
bytes 692
<< b >>
lines 1,200
words 1,200
bytes 4,893
<< total >>
lines 1,400
words 1,400
bytes 5,585