wc
Count lines, words, or bytes. More information: https://ss64.com/osx/wc.html.
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Count lines in file:
wc -l {{path/to/file}}
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Count words in file:
wc -w {{path/to/file}}
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Count characters (bytes) in file:
wc -c {{path/to/file}}
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Count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account):
wc -m {{path/to/file}}
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Use
stdin
to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:
{{find .}} | wc
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