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wc

Count lines, words, and bytes. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc.
  • Count all lines in a file:
    wc --lines {{path/to/file}}
  • Count all words in a file:
    wc --words {{path/to/file}}
  • Count all bytes in a file:
    wc --bytes {{path/to/file}}
  • Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account):
    wc --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 --max-line-length {{path/to/file}}

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