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The commands with their most common usage are in brackets like this: [ command ].
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line , word , byte count of a file called foo

[ wc foo ]
[ wc -c foo ] print the byte count in the foo file
[ wc -m foo ] print the number of characters in the foo file
[ wc -l foo ] print the number of lines in the foo file
[ wc -L foo ] print the length of the longest line in the foo file
[ wc -w foo ] print the word count for the file called foo



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