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Count Number of Lines, Words, Characters in File using ‘wc’ Command

Count Number of Lines, Words, Characters in File using ‘wc’ Command

The wc (word count) command in Unix/Linux operating systems is used to find out number of newline count, word count, byte and characters count in a files specified by the file arguments. The syntax of wc command as shown below.

# wc [options] filenames

The following are the options and usage provided by the command.

wc -l: Prints…

Manage Files Effectively using head, tail and cat Commands in Linux

Today, in this article we will be discussing the most popular commands called head, tail and cat, most of us already aware of such commands, but very few of us implement it when needed.

1. head Command

The head command reads the first ten lines of a any given file name. The basic syntax of head command is:

head [options]…