LinuxConfig -
wc
1. Name
wc [man page] - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
2. Synopsis
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
3. Frequently used options
-c, --bytes print the byte counts
-m, --chars print the character counts
-l, --lines print the newline counts
-w, --words print the word counts
4. Examples
By default if you pass file as a argument to wc command it prints number of lines, words and characters:
wc /etc/passwd
To instruct wc command to print only number of words contained within file we can use -w option:
wc -w /etc/passwd
Similarly if we need only number of lines we would use -l option:
wc -l /etc/passwd
For number of characters we need to use -c option:
wc -m /etc/passwd
wc can also print out a number of bytes within file:
wc -c /etc/passwd
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