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