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wc

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- wc
wc:tldr:01a1e wc: Count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account).

$ wc -m ${filename}

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- wc
wc:tldr:246ce wc: Count words in file.

$ wc -w ${filename}

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- wc
wc:tldr:3f9f7 wc: Count all words in a file.

$ wc --words ${filename}

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- wc
wc:tldr:48f53 wc: Count all bytes in a file.

$ wc --bytes ${filename}

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wc:tldr:7a448 wc: Count all lines, words and bytes from `stdin`.

$ ${find -} | wc

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- wc
wc:tldr:b815a wc: Count characters (bytes) in file.

$ wc -c ${filename}

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- wc
wc:tldr:c1639 wc: Count lines in file.

$ wc -l ${filename}

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- wc
wc:tldr:d80fd wc: Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account).

$ wc --chars ${filename}

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- wc
wc:tldr:fa727 wc: Count all lines in a file.

$ wc --lines ${filename}

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- wc
wc:tldr:faf42 wc: Count the length of the longest line in number of characters.

$ wc --max-line-length ${filename}

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