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# Count The Number Of Words On A Webpage
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I was reading through a couple sections of the `postfix` documentation and I
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was astounded at how large the webpage is, and that is just for the `main.cf`
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file format.
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Curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to get a sense of the magnitude of
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the page. A word count seemed like a good measure.
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Using `pandoc` and a couple other unix utilities, I was able to quickly get
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that number.
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```bash
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curl -s http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html\#virtual_mailbox_maps | pandoc -f html -t plain | wc -w
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88383
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```
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Generically, that is:
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```bash
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curl -s url | pandoc -f html -t plain | wc -w
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```
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Pandoc produces a plain-text version of the HTML page that was pulled in by
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`curl` and then we use `wc` to get a word (`-w`) count.
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