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Counting the number of characters, words and lines
The command
wc
<filenames>
counts lines, words and characters for each file. Using wc -l counts number of lines only. (wc is short for
word count) For example, the following counts the number of words in the standard dictionary in the system.
[alice@onyx ~]$ wc -l /usr/share/dict/words 479828 /usr/share/dict/words [alice@onyx ~]$
