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wc — Count lines, words, or bytes. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/wc.1.html>.

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Problem

How to use the wc command: Count lines, words, or bytes. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/wc.1.html>.

Solution

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

Code Snippets

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

Context

tldr-pages: osx/wc

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