Byte counter

This simple C program counts the frequency of each byte in standard input or in one or more files. You can specify the names of the files to read as command-line arguments or as a list in standard input or in a file. You can customize the format of the output.

Download

• Source file and tests in a .tar.xz file
• Source file in a .tar.gz file
• Source file in a .zip file

Compile

After downloading and unpacking the source file, you can compile the executable file with a command like make or gcc -o bytes bytes.c.

Example: count bytes in standard input

echo test | ./bytes
10 '\n' 1
101 'e' 1
115 's' 1
116 't' 2
5