Linux command of the week

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wc

wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

Which is useful for comparing line, word, and character count of files

[kpb@localhost ~]$ wc *.txt
3 6 29 test1.txt
5 10 49 test.txt
8 16 78 total

The first column is line count
The second column is word count
The third line is character count

You can also use it to get a byte count of a file:

[kpb@localhost ~]$ wc -c test.txt
49 test.txt

See the man pages for more info

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