SHELL

wc linux command

# Example of wc use 

wc /proc/cpuinfo 

448 3632 22226 /proc/cpuinfo

# 448: Number of lines
# 3632: Number of words
# 22226: Number of characters

wc command

wc file.txt
10		20		500 	file.txt
lines	words	bytes	file_name
wc -l file.txt # Outputs only lines (-l)
wc -w file.txt # Outputs only words (-w)
wc -c file.txt # Outputs only bytes (-c).