wc (Word Count)

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Overview

wc (Word Count) is a command-line utility program for UNIX that generates word count statistics (and lots of other useful information like line count) for given input.

To print out statistics on a text file:

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wc my_file

Authors

Geoffrey Hunter

Dude making stuff.

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