Unix/Linux Tutorials | Word Count (wc) Command in UNIX/LINUX | by Durga Sir

Word Count Command (wc command): ---------------------------------------------- We can use wc command to count number of lines,words and characters present in the given file. $ wc filename no_of_lines no_of_words no_of_chars file_name eg: durgasoft@durgasoft:~/Desktop$ wc file1.txt 4 16 78 file1.txt 4 ---The number of lines 16 ---The number of words 78 ---The number of characters (File size in bytes) Note: In UNIX, each character will take 1 byte memory. Hence file size in bytes is exactly same as number of characters. We can use the following options with wc command -l === To print only number of lines -w === To print only number of words -c === To print only number of characters -lw === To print only number of lines and words -lc === To print only number of lines and characters -wc === To print only number of words and characters -L ==== To print number of characters present in the Longest Line. We can use wc command for multiple files simultaneously. $ wc file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt 5 17 140 file1.txt 4 6 91 file2.txt 7 9 129 file3.txt 16 32 360 total #DURGASOFTWARE #UNIX/LINUX #WordCountCommand