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# wc
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> Count lines, words, or bytes.
> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>.
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- Count lines in file:
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`wc -l {{file}}`
- Count words in file:
`wc -w {{file}}`
- Count characters (bytes) in file:
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`wc -c {{file}}`
- Count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account):
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`wc -m {{file}}`
- Use standard input to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:
`{{find .}} | wc`
- Count the length of the longest line in number of characters:
`wc --max-line-length {{file}}`