What is wc ?
3 wc examples
Syntax and Options
Related Commands
What is wc ?
wc prints the number of lines, words and bytes in the given input. wc is the abbreviation of word count.
3 wc Examples
Print the number of lines, words and characters in a file
To view the number of lines, words and characters in a file, give the filename as argument to the wc command as shown below.
Syntax:
$ wc filename X Y Z filename
- X – Number of lines
- Y – Number of words
- Z – Number of bytes
- filename – name of the file
$ wc demofile.txt 36 104 570 demofile.txt
The above output indicates that the demofile.txt has 36 lines, 104 words, and 570 bytes.
Print specific counts as required
You can use -l option to print only the line count as shown below.
$ wc -l demofile.txt 36 demofile.txt
The same way you can use the following options for specific requirements such as,
- -w : print only word count
- -c : print only the byte count
You can also use any combination of above options.
Print the length of longest line
You can use -L option to print the length of longest line in the file.
$ wc -L demofile.txt 84 demofile.txt
Syntax and Options
| Short Option | Long Option | Option Description |
|---|---|---|
| -c | –bytes | print the byte counts |
| -m | –chars | print the character counts |
| -l | –lines | print the newline counts |
| –files0-from=F | read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F | |
| -L | –max-line-length | print the length of the longest line |
| -w | –words | print the word counts |
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is there any command which tells the word count such as ‘printf’ in script?????suppose there is two ‘printf’ in one line then any specific command????????
If we give more than one files to WC command .How it’s work?
command : wc -l | ls -R /Datta
Note:Datta is Directory…..