Wc
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Name
wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
Synopsis - man page
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]... wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
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
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
