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# wc
> Count lines, words, or bytes.
- 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}}`
- Use standard input to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:
`{{find .}} | wc`