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---
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layout: page
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author: Alessandro Luini
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category-page: advanced
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category-title: Advanced commands
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tags: word count lines
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title: wc
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previous-page: pages/cmd/advanced/vi.html
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---
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The program reads either standard input or a list of files and
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generates one or more of the following statistics: newline count,
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word count, and byte count. If a list of files is provided, both
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individual file and total statistics follow.
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<h3>How to use</h3>
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Sample execution of wc:
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<pre>
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wc file1.txt file2.txt
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</pre>
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will output:
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<pre>
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40 149 947 file1.txt
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2294 16638 97724 file2.txt
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2334 16787 98671 total
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</pre>
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The first column is the count of newlines, meaning that the text file
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<code>file1.txt</code> has 40 newlines while bar has 2294 newlines-
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resulting in a total of 2334 newlines. The second column indicates the
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number of words in each text file showing that there are 149 words in <code>file1.txt</code>
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and 16638 words in <code>file2.txt</code> – giving a total of 16787 words.<br>
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The last column indicates the number of characters in each text file, meaning that the file
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<code>file1.txt</code> has 947 characters while bar has 97724 characters – 98671
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characters all in all.<br>
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<h3>Flags</h3>
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<pre>
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wc -l file1.txt
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</pre>
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Prints the line count (note that if the last line does not have <code>\n</code>,
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it will not be counted).
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<pre>
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wc -c file1.txt
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</pre>
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Prints the byte count.
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<pre>
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wc -m file1.txt
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</pre>
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Prints the character count.
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<pre>
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wc -L file1.txt
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</pre>
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Prints the length of longest line (GNU extension)
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<pre>
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wc -w file1.txt
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</pre>
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Prints the word count.
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