tldr/pages/osx/wc.md

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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:

wc -l {{path/to/file}}

  • Count words in file:

wc -w {{path/to/file}}

  • Count characters (bytes) in file:

wc -c {{path/to/file}}

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

wc -m {{path/to/file}}

  • Use stdin to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:

{{find .}} | wc