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title: Bash wc
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 ## Bash command: wc
 `wc` is used to display newline, byte, word counts of a file.
 ### Usage
 ```
 wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
 ```
 Here are some helpful options for its use :
 - `-c` to print the bytes counts.
- `-w` to print the word counts.
- `-m` to print the character counts.

### More Information
* run `man wc` to get a list of all options for this command
 * [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wc_(Unix))