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Normal Use of wc command

# wc /etc/passwd

  23   30 1035 /etc/passwd

To count number of lines in a file

# wc -l /etc/passwd

23 /etc/passwd

To count number of words in a file

# wc -w /etc/passwd

30 /etc/passwd

To count number of characters in a file

# wc -c /etc/passwd

1035 /etc/passwd

To apply normal wc command on a output using PIPE operator

# cat /etc/passwd |wc

     23      30    1035

To count number of lines from an output using PIPE

# cat /etc/passwd |wc -l

23

To count number of words from an output using PIPE

# cat /etc/passwd |wc -w

30

To count number of characters form an output using PIPE

# cat /etc/passwd |wc -c

1035

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