texcount

Count words in TeX documents omitting macros. Note: if the TeX document uses \include or \input and you want to count the included files, texcount must be run in the directory of the root TeX file. More information: https://app.uio.no/ifi/texcount/howto.html.

texcount path/to/file.tex

texcount -merge file.tex

texcount -inc file.tex

texcount -v path/to/file.tex