wc
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