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# wc
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> Count lines, words, and bytes.
> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>.
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- Count all lines in a file:
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`wc --lines {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all words in a file:
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`wc --words {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all bytes in a file:
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`wc --bytes {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account):
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`wc --chars {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all lines, words and bytes from `stdin`:
`{{find .}} | wc`
- Count the length of the longest line in number of characters:
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`wc --max-line-length {{path/to/file}}`