wc.md

wc

print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

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In short

• word count

References

• man wc

Options

• -c, --bytes print byte counts
• -m, --chars print character counts
• -l, --lines print newline counts
• -L, --max-line-length print length of the longest line
• -w, --words print word counts

Usage

Lines & …

$ wc file_1
# lines / words / bytes / filename
34 112 893 file_1

$ wc -l file_1
34 file_1

$ wc -l file_1 file_2
  34 file_1
4800 file_2
4834 total

$ wc -lm file_1 file_2
# equals
$ wc -ml file_1 file_2
# lines / chars
  34   893 file_1
4800 52800 file_2
4834 53693 total

Combination

$ grep 101 file_3 | wc -l
35

Bytes & Chars

$ echo 何冰 | wc -c
7

$ echo 何冰 | wc -m
3

$ echo 123 | wc -c
4

$ echo 123 | wc -m
4