Linux Shell WC Command

1. Syntax and options

Short

Option	Long Option	Option Description
-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
-L	–max-line-length	Print the length of the longest line
-W	–words	Print the word counts

2. Example

Number of lines, number of words, number of strings printed on the file

$WC File

Results:

X  Y  Z  file#x number of lines #y number of words #z characters

Number of rows individually printed

WC file