# wc > Count lines, words, and bytes. > More information: . - 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}}`