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wc

Count lines, words, and bytes.

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• 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}

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