Linux Command Line Tutorial For Beginners 30 - wc command

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

use
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

DESCRIPTION
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters delimited by white space. The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.

-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; If F is - then read names from standard input

-L, --max-line-length
print the length of the longest line

-w, --words
print the word counts

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit
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[gregcachin]

I will watch the video from #1 to #38, Thank you very much, I learned a lot.

[clavodestiriouso]

watched 30 video on single nyt and i think i remembered em oll thnku :)

[daneliacardet]

I wished this showed the code to run the wc command in a program :( stuck on a lab and dont know how to do it

[ayone]

showing large windows on last minute are annoying. too large and too long and too many.
can not see well what you are doing as summary.
I appreciate if you make sure they wont cover your working window.