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by rtb 1923 days ago
The "grep" and "wc" commands that are included in that table don't attempt to solve the problem. That wasn't clear to me on first reading.

I suppose they are included as a baseline for reading a file and for tokenising strings into words. See https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/eb2a8adf21c895907...