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Bash wc

Bash command: wc

wc is used to display newline, byte, word counts of a file.

Usage

wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Here are some helpful options for its use :

• -c to print the bytes counts.
• -w to print the word counts.
• -m to print the character counts.

More Information

• run man wc to get a list of all options for this command
• Wikipedia