wc
Count lines, words, or bytes. More information: https://ss64.com/osx/wc.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 standard input to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:
{{find .}} | wc
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