charnum.c

/*
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; even without the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

All code posted on my Pastebin is designed for Linux (Debian-based)
compile with: gcc charnum.c -o charNum

A program to determine how many characters are in a file
(such as .C, .py, .txt, etc...)
Note: Does not include newline characters

Original creator: 0x00sec_JINX (https://0x00sec.org/users/0x00_jinx)
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){

    if(argc != 2){

        printf("Usage: %s <filename>\n",argv[0]);
        return 1;

    }

    FILE *fd;
    char buff[2];
    int charCount = 0;

    if((fd = fopen(argv[1],"r")) < 0){

        printf("ERROR Could not open file %s",argv[1]);
        return 1;

    }

    while((fgets(buff,sizeof(buff),(FILE*)fd)) != NULL){

        if((buff[1] != '\n') && (buff[0] != '\n')){

            ++charCount;

        }

    }

    fclose(fd);

    printf("%d\n",charCount);

    return 0;

}