wc Command Examples

Count lines, words, and bytes. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc.

• Count all lines in a file:

wc --lines {{path/to/file}}

• Count all words in a file:

wc --words {{path/to/file}}

• Count all bytes in a file:

wc --bytes {{path/to/file}}

• Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account):

wc --chars {{path/to/file}}

• Count all lines, words and bytes from stdin:

{{find .}} | wc

• Count the length of the longest line in number of characters:

wc --max-line-length {{path/to/file}}