(thing) by dorward Sun May 14 2000 at 20:59:46
*nix command used to print a word/character/line count.

wc (options) (files)

Options:
-w word count only
-l line count only
-c character count only

Examples:

wc -l essay.txt
How may lines in the file essay.txt

who | wc -l
How many users logged on?
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