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# wc
> Count lines, words, or bytes.
> More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/wc.1.html>.
- Count lines in file:
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`wc -l {{path/to/file}}`
- Count words in file:
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`wc -w {{path/to/file}}`
- Count characters (bytes) in file:
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`wc -c {{path/to/file}}`
- Count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account):
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`wc -m {{path/to/file}}`
- Use `stdin` to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:
`{{find .}} | wc`