wc
Count lines, words, and bytes. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc.
- 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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