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Enter a command. For example: bless, dd, pbpaste, fdesetup, uname.

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