WC Commands Cheat Sheet
Here is a cli commands cheat sheet for WC command, you can use this as a quick reminder for basic commands with a brief description for each of the commands.
What is WC command?
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# To count the number of words (file or STDIN):
wc -w
cat | wc -w
# To count the number of lines (file or STDIN):
wc -l
cat | wc -l
# To count the number of bytes (file or STDIN):
wc -c
cat | wc -c
# To count files and directories at a given location:
ls | wc -l
# To if you ever use `wc` in a shell script and need to compare the output with an int you can
# clean the output (wc returns extra characters around the integer) by using xargs:
ls -l | wc -l | xargs
Check out the WC command documentation .
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