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+# wc
+
+> Count words, bytes, or lines
+
+- count lines in file
+
+`wc -l {{file}}`
+
+- count bytes in file
+
+`wc -c {{file}}`
+
+- count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account)
+
+`wc -m {{file}}`
+