Display file contents

View file contents interactively

Output first part of files

Print newline, word, and byte counts

text

counting

statistics

wc

wc counts lines, words, and characters in files.

Count lines, words, characters

wc file.txt

Count lines only

wc -l file.txt

Count words only

wc -w file.txt

Output last part of files

Search for patterns in files

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