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K.B.Dharun Krishna 898f711019
pages/*: update GNU coreutils links, sync translation pages (#15543)
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# wc
> Count lines, words, and bytes.
> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/wc-invocation.html>.
- Count all lines in a file:
`wc --lines {{path/to/file}}`
- Count all words in a file:
`wc --words {{path/to/file}}`
- Count all bytes in a file:
`wc --bytes {{path/to/file}}`
- Count all characters in a file (taking multi-byte characters into account):
`wc --chars {{path/to/file}}`
- Count all lines, words and bytes from `stdin`:
`{{find .}} | wc`
- Count the length of the longest line in number of characters:
`wc --max-line-length {{path/to/file}}`