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wc Command - Count Output by Lines, Words or Characters

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Putorius.net; By Steven Vona
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The Linux wc command it one of the many text utilities that come packaged with the GNU Core Utilities. It allows you to print a count of words, lines, characters, or even bytes in a file or standard input (STDIN). In this article we will show you the basics of using the wc command, and include some real world examples.

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