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wc

The wc command is a command-line tool used to compute the byte count, word count, and line count of a given file.

File path

Print only the byte count (-c)

Print only the newline count (-l)

Print only the word count (-w)

Print only the length of the longest line (-L)

Print only the character count (-m)

Display help information and exit (--help)

Display version information and exit (--version)

Example

wc file.txt, count the number of lines, words, and characters in the file.txt file.
wc -l file.txt, count the number of lines in the file.txt file.
wc -w file.txt, count the number of words in the file.txt file.
wc -c file.txt, count the number of bytes in the file.txt file.
wc -m file.txt, count the number of characters in the file.txt file.