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wc

Count lines, words, and bytes. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc.

  • 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}}