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wc

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Count lines, words, and bytes.

Options (5)

-l, --linesboolean

Count all lines in a file

Example: wc {{[-l|--lines]}} {{path/to/file}}

-w, --wordsboolean

Count all words in a file

Example: wc {{[-w|--words]}} {{path/to/file}}

-c, --bytesboolean

Count all bytes in a file

Example: wc {{[-c|--bytes]}} {{path/to/file}}

-m, --charsboolean

Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account)

Example: wc {{[-m|--chars]}} {{path/to/file}}

-L, --max-line-lengthboolean

Count the length of the longest line in number of characters

Example: wc {{[-L|--max-line-length]}} {{path/to/file}}

Count all lines in a file

wc [-l|--lines] path/to/file

Count all words in a file

wc [-w|--words] path/to/file

Count all bytes in a file

wc [-c|--bytes] path/to/file

Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account)

wc [-m|--chars] path/to/file

Count all lines, words, and bytes from `stdin`

find . | wc

Count the length of the longest line in number of characters

wc [-L|--max-line-length] path/to/file