wc
word, line, and byte or character count
TLDR
Count all lines in a file
Count all words in a file
Count all bytes in a file
Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account)
Count all lines, words and bytes from stdin
Count the length of the longest line in number of characters
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of printable characters delimited by white space.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
- -c, --bytes
print the byte counts
- -m, --chars
print the character counts
- -l, --lines
print the newline counts
- --files0-from=F
read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
- -L, --max-line-length
print the maximum display width
- -w, --words
print the word counts
- --help
display this help and exit
- --version
output version information and exit
REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.