Wc

By using the UNIX utility wc, the user can count all the lines, characters and words in a file.

Syntax

wc       [options] filename

The given options could be used with wc command.

-l          denotes the number of lines

-w    denotes the number of words

-c         denotes the number of characters

Let Consider the following

# wc num

12        12        36 num

By the output it can be seen that there are four fields:

Number of lines          12

Number of words        12

Total number of characters    36

Name of the file          num