tldr/pages/common/wc.md

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wc

Count words, bytes, or lines.

  • Count lines in file:

wc -l {{file}}

  • Count words in file:

wc -w {{file}}

  • Count characters (bytes) in file:

wc -c {{file}}

  • Count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account):

wc -m {{file}}