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pages/*: add backticks around I/O streams (#10436)
* as suggested in #10428
* standard input  => `stdin`
* standard output => `stdout`
* standard error  => `stderr`

Co-authored-by: K.B.Dharun Krishna <kbdharunkrishna@gmail.com>
2023-08-09 10:59:02 +05:30

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# wc
> Count lines, words, or bytes.
> More information: <https://ss64.com/osx/wc.html>.
- Count lines in file:
`wc -l {{path/to/file}}`
- Count words in file:
`wc -w {{path/to/file}}`
- Count characters (bytes) in file:
`wc -c {{path/to/file}}`
- Count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account):
`wc -m {{path/to/file}}`
- Use `stdin` to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:
`{{find .}} | wc`