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syntax: markdown
tags: [tldr, osx]
source: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git
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# wc

> Count lines, words, or bytes.
> More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/wc.1.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 `stdin` to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:

`{{find .}} | wc`
