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---
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syntax: markdown
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tags: [tldr, common]
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source: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git
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---
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# wc
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> Count lines, words, and bytes.
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> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/wc-invocation.html>.
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- Count all lines in a file:
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`wc {{[-l|--lines]}} {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all words in a file:
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`wc {{[-w|--words]}} {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all bytes in a file:
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`wc {{[-c|--bytes]}} {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account):
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`wc {{[-m|--chars]}} {{path/to/file}}`
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- Count all lines, words, and bytes from `stdin`:
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`{{find .}} | wc`
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- Count the length of the longest line in number of characters:
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`wc {{[-L|--max-line-length]}} {{path/to/file}}`
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