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what does the command 'wc' do?

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what does the command 'wc' do?..

Answer / samrat biswal

wc -l <file_name> will display the number of lines present
in that file or the record count
wc -w <file_name> will display the number of words present
in that file
wc -c <file_name> will display the number of character
present in that file

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what does the command 'wc' do?..

Answer / payal

wc command counts the number of lines,words and characters
present in a file.

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what does the command 'wc' do?..

Answer / amit

wc command generally used for count the no. of words(-w),
counts the no of lines(-l), count the no of character(-c)
example
wc -c<b
where b is the file. wc command check the character from
file b.similrly use the -l at the position of -c then it
counts the no of lines present in the file b.

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what does the command 'wc' do?..

Answer / abdessa

wc command counts the number of lines,words and characters
present in a file

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