concord corpus="x:\text\dickens\hard_times.txt" node="hard" output="c:\temp\hard.cnc"

made a concordance of the hard_times.txt text file looking for the search-word hard and saved results in c:\temp\hard.cnc

concord corpus="x:\text\dickens\hard_times.txt" node="c:\temp\sws.txt" output="c:\temp\outputs.txt" 1_at_a_time="true"

made a concordance of the same text file looking for each search-word in the sws.txt file, counted the number of hits and saved results in c:\temp\outputs.txt

concord corpus="x:\text\dickens\hard_times.txt" node="c:\temp\sws.txt" output="c:\temp\concordances" searchword_by_searchword="true"

made a concordance of the same text file looking for each search-word in the sws.txt file and saved results as concordances (hard.cnc, soft.cnc etc.) in c:\temp\concordances folder

wordlist corpus="x:\text\shakes\oll\txt\tragedies\*.txt" output="c:\temp\shakespeare.lst"

made a word list of all the .txt text files in a folder of Shakespeare tragedies (not including sub-folders) and saved it in its default format.

keywords refcorpus="j:\temp\BNC.lst" wordlist="c:\temp\shakespeare.lst" output="j:\temp\shakespeare.kws"

made a key words list of that word list compared with a BNC word list and saved it.

wordlist-index corpus="x:\text\shakes\oll\txt\tragedies\*.txt" clusters = "3" output="c:\temp\shakespeare_tragedies_3s.lst" excluded_subfolders="*_characters" include_subfolders="true"

computed an index of shakespeare tragedies, looked at sub-folders but excluded any containing _characters, then computed clusters 3 words in length and saved the word list as shakespeare_tragedies_3s.lst,

TXT_format="true"

Excel_format="true"

RTF_format="true"

XML_format="true"

Saves the output instead, as a txt, .xlsx, .rtf, or .xml file for use with other software. RTF_format is slower than the others.

1_at_a_time="true"

searchword_by_searchword="true"

fetch="N" (N = a number)

show="N"

If 1_at_a_time is true, a word-list will export separate results text file by text file. The output needs to be a folder, not a file-name.

If 1_at_a_time is true, Concord will read search words from a text file and save summary results:

concord corpus="x:\text\dickens\hard_times.txt" node="c:\temp\sws.txt" output="c:\temp\outputs.txt" 1_at_a_time="true"

produced this in c:\temp\outputs.txt:

x:\text\dickens\hard_times.txt

hard        50

soft        3

mean        54

empty        9

fred        0

book        13

north*        4

south*        2

concord corpus="x:\text\dickens\hard_times.txt" node="c:\temp\sws.txt" output="c:\temp\outputs.txt" 1_at_a_time="true" fetch="5" show="2"

using the same text produced this:

fetch tells WordSmith how many concordance lines to find, show tells it how many to show as a sample.

concord corpus="x:\text\dickens\hard_times.txt" node="c:\temp\sws.txt" output="c:\temp\concordances" searchword_by_searchword="true"

produced this:

It is also possible to run a script requesting the collocates of each word in a word-list. This syntax

wordlist collocates of "c:\temp\shakespeare.lst" output="c:\temp\shakespeare\collocates"

tells WordSmith to compute the collocates of each word in the shakespeare.lst word-list, and save results as plain text files, one per word, in the c:\temp\shakespeare\collocates folder.  The texts to be processed are the same text files used when the word list was created (and must still be present on disk to work, of course). Settings affecting the process are shown below. The first 6 have to do with the words from the word-list, and the min. in collocate-list refers to how many collocates of each word-list word are needed (here 10) for processing to be reported. Min. total column refers to the number in the total column of a collocation display.

Results look like this:

Here they're incomplete because I pressed the Stop button.

Each of these lists has the collocates output much as in a collocates display, but with the relationships also computed.

The process only saves results where the settings shown above are met and where the relationships also meet the requirements as in the WSConcgram settings.