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Text editors are apps that can be simple, or they can be complex. In fact, some text editors add so many features that they cease to be text editors and transcend to a higher app level.

At its core, a text editor will accept text and allow you to save a file in various formats e.g. BAT, AHK, PS1, HTML, CSS, SRT, etc. There are all sorts of features that you can add on top of this to make entering, and editing text easier such as syntax highlighting, line numbers, auto-close tags, etc.

Notepad is the stock text editor on Windows 10 and its best feature is that it is a light, no-nonsense app that offers users a distraction free interface. The app opens quickly, can handle loads of text, and can save a file in any format.

Line numbers in Notepad on Windows 10

Line numbers are a feature you’ll find in quite a few text editors and all code editors. They’re helpful and not just when you’re writing code. Sadly, Notepad doesn’t show line numbers along the side like a code editor or an advanced text editor normally would.

To view line numbers in Notepad, follow these steps.

Open a Notepad file.
Go to View and select Status Bar.
Enter text and move the cursor to the line you want to find the number for.
Look at the bottom in the status bar and you will see the line number.

Other text editors

The Notepad line numbers aren’t the greatest since you have to click a line to find the number for it. Having line numbers appear along the side is really what most users prefer and Notepad doesn’t have that.

There are other text editors though that you can use. We’re going to recommend two excellent apps. We will be ignoring apps like Notepad++ which, while excellent, is far too advanced to be called a simple text editor.

1. Metapad

Metapad is free, and has a terminal-like interface. It is as simple as a text editor can get with line numbers along the side. Because it so much like a terminal, you’re not going to be distracted by ugly icons or a poor UI design that’s stuck in the Windows 98 days.

You can customize the background color of the app which means instead of a bright, blinding white background, you can get something that’s much easier on the eyes.

2. Brackets

Brackets sits snuggly on the fine line that differentiates simple text editors from advanced ones. The UI is great but you can change it so that you get nothing more than a simple, distraction-free window to work in. It has line numbers, and tons of other great features like a debugger, extension support, line selection, and a lot more.

It isn’t as light as Notepad or Metapad but it’s not heavy. During installation, it asks to be added to the PATH variable making it all the easier to use.

Conclusion

We’ve neglected quite a few popular text editors like Micro, SciTE, and Programmer’s Notepad. These apps aren’t bad but their UI is either cluttered or still following old design, or they tend to run heavy on a system. You’re free to check them out though and use whatever works for you.

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Line number format:

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A line number counter can be useful if you’re doing cross-browser testing. For example, if your a webapp counts how many lines a user has entered in a form and it checks the format of each line, then if the user makes a mistake, it may be a good idea to tell them which line the mistake happened. Without line numbers added to input data, the user would have to count the lines himself or herself to find the line with an error but if you enumerate lines for the user and add line numbers to the input text, then the user can quickly find the line in question. This program can help you write unit tests for this use case. The input data of the test would be text without line numbers and the output data would be the same text but with line numbers added before each line. Additionally, this utility can be used to find out how many lines are in your text. If you paste the text you’re working with in the input field and quickly scroll to the bottom of your text, you’ll find the last line of text and its line number.

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Word counts the number of words in a document as you type. Word also counts pages, paragraphs, lines, and characters.

If you want to know how many words, pages, characters, paragraphs, or lines a document contains, check the status bar.

To find out the number of words in a document fragment, select the required text. The status bar will display the number of words in the selected text and in the entire document.

Tip: To see the number of characters, lines, and paragraphs in your document, click the word count on the status bar.

Counting the number of characters, lines and paragraphs

To open the Statistics dialog box and view the number of characters, lines, paragraphs, and other information, click the statistics field on the status bar in Word for Mac. If no text is selected, Word counts the number of words and characters in the entire document and displays it in the Statistics dialog box.

Word count in document part

To count the number of words in a particular part of a document, select the desired text. Then in menu Service select item Statistics .

Just like Word on the desktop, Word for the web counts words as you type.

If the statistics do not appear at the bottom of the window, make sure that Editing Mode is selected (select Edit Document > Edit in Word for the web ).

Click the statistics button to turn it on or off.

You may have noticed that Word for the web displays approximate statistics. This is because words in areas such as text boxes, headers, and footers are not counted. SmartArt graphics. If you want the exact number of words, press Open in Word and look at the word count at the bottom of the Word document window.

How to count the number of lines in a file in Bash?

In any code or program, there is sometimes a situation where we need to know how big the data in the file file data is. We can get this by the number of lines in the file, instead of going through all the data. Counting rows manually can take a long time. So, these tools are used to make it easier for us to achieve the desired result. In this tutorial, we will look at some common and unusual ways to count the line number in a file.

To understand this concept, we need a text file. So that we apply the commands to this particular file. We have already created the file. Consider a file named file1.txt.

$ Cat file1.txt

Otherwise, you need to create the file first. The file can be created in different ways. We will do this via echo with angle brackets in the command.

$ echo «Text to be written to file» > file name

Example 1

Because we displayed the contents of the file using the cat command at the beginning of the article. This example assumes the use of «-n» with the cat command. The output of the command will be the line number and the text content of the file. This way we will get the total number of lines in the corresponding file.

$ Cat –N file1.txt

The corresponding image shows that there are 11 lines in the file.

Similarly, there is another example where we used «nl» in the command. N will show numbers and -l is used to include all content with a line number. So here is the command.

$ nl file1.txt

Example 2

This example shows the use of the «wc» command. This is used to determine the number of words, bytes, lines and characters. Here we will only get line numbers without text. To get the resulting value, use «wc» with -l in the command. As a result, you will get the total number of lines with the file name. So let’s use this command.

$ WC -L file1.txt

As a result, both the line number and the data are visible. Now if you only want to display the total number of lines without displaying the file name. Then, if you only want to display the total number of lines without displaying the file name, you can use the left angle bracket in the command. Here, the shell has redirected the file file1.txt to standard input for the wc -l command.

$ toilet -L file1.txt

Another way to use the «wc» command is to use it with the cat command. This command allows you to use «pipe» along with cat and wc -l. The content will act as input for the part of the content after the vertical bar in the command. The resulting output is simultaneous in both cases. But the way it is used is different.

$cat file1.txt |toilet-l

Example 3

This example details the use of the «sed» command. The stream editor indicates that it is being used to transform the text of the file. This is mainly used in a command where we need to find the required text and then replace it. «sed» takes more than one argument to display the number of lines. In this command, we will use «sed» to get the counter for the corresponding file.

We will use two operators here to describe its use with both.

“=”

The first is the equals sign. We will use «sed», the equal sign (=) and the -n option. This combination will bring empty lines plus line numbering. Content will not be displayed here. Only line numbers are displayed here.

$ sed –N ‘=’ file1.txt

“$=”

In the second option, we will use the dollar sign in addition to the equal sign. This combination is used with the «sed» and -n options. Unlike the last example, we only get the total number of rows, not the context. Sometimes we need to have the last line number instead of all line numbers of the lines of a file; for this we use this approach.

$ sed -N ‘$ =’ file1.txt

Example 4

«awk» is used in the command to collect the total number of lines. All lines are considered a record. In the END section, we will see the record number (NR). The NR variable is built into awk. Only the last number will be shown. Thus, one can easily find out the total number of lines in a file.

$ awk ‘END { print NR }’File1.txt

Example 5

«Grep» means regular printing of the global expression. «Grep» is another way to find a filename or text terms within a file. Grep searches a file for specific patterns using special characters, and also finds specific expressions that match expressions present in a command through regular expressions.

Similarly, «$» is used here. That is, as you know, find and display the end of the line. «-Count» is used to count all lines that match the expression present in the file. Thus, using this command, we can get to the end of the file and count the line number of the content.

$ grep — -regexp = «$» — -read file1.txt

Another way to use the grep command is to use it with «. *” and –c. «-C» is used to count all lines, while «*» means all text. This means counting all the line numbers in the text.

$ grep -C «.*»File1.txt

In this type we used -h and -c together. As we know, c means count, while -h will display all matched lines. This means that it will bring the last line with the filename.

$ grep -Hc «.