TextEdit word count

Not directly. Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and run:

tell application "TextEdit"
count words of document 1
end tell

(47848)

http://paulgorman.org/software/NanoCount/ or
http://www.supermagnus.com/mac/Word_Counter/

You know there is always this;

doug-penningtons-power-mac-g4:Documents dougp$ wc -w /Users/dougp/Documents/Phone Book copy.rtf 
 260 /Users/dougp/Documents/Phone Book copy.rtf

Care to share the script?

My mistake. I thought that you whipped up some bash script and was not aware you were referring to the above AppleScript. I'm trying to figure, with a wild card, how you get a word count and list of say, all .txt, .rtf and .pdf in Documents and write to a designated file.

#!/bin/bash
 wc -w /Users/dougp/Desktop/"ssh and sftp commands.txt" > /Users/dougp/Desktop/wordcounter.txt

This does such but it's just a basic wc on only one file. I tried variations with

doug-penningtons-power-mac-g4:Documents dougp$ wc -w /Users/dougp/Documents/[.txt]* > /Users/dougp/Desktop/wordcounter.txt

But that one with wildcard only pulls up one random .txt file out of many and writes it off as desired. What's wrong here aside from posting to Unix Discussion?

This works but I still can't figure how to add to command to list and word count sub directories in Documents.

doug-penningtons-power-mac-g4:Documents dougp$ wc -w /Users/dougp/Documents/*.txt *.rtf *.pdf > /Users/dougp/Desktop/wordcounter.txt

which shows this result to write out file:
{code]
107 /Users/dougp/Documents/How Leopard is installed(not .pkg's).txt
347 /Users/dougp/Documents/Windows Dig copy 2.txt
143 /Users/dougp/Documents/launchagent info.txt
465 /Users/dougp/Documents/start & stop mysql & phpmyadmin.txt
26 /Users/dougp/Documents/template for appdisc posted images from myserver.txt
260 Phone Book copy.rtf
9366 About Stacks.pdf
27815 Peachpit_ The Mac Sys Admin's Guide to Assessing Systems in Mac OS X 10.5 > Evaluating the Upgrade History.pdf
17581 QUICKLY empty the trash by rsync.pdf
1943 mount nfs leopard exports to panther.pdf
58053 total
{code}
Thanks. Plus I am going to post this to http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735

I highly recommend Devon Technologies WordService http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10523/wordservice as it handles so many additional functions such as reformatting and line sorting as well as statistics within all Cocoa apps (plus it's free).