Comandos de la terminal/wc

 wc [options]... [file]...

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ cat WCEjemplo 
Línea Uno
dos Tres Dos
quatro
Línea quatro

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc WCEjemplo 
 4  8 45 WCEjemplo

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc -c WCEjemplo 
45 WCEjemplo

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc --chars WCEjemplo 
43 WCEjemplo

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc --bytes WCEjemplo 
45 WCEjemplo

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc -w WCEjemplo 
8 WCEjemplo

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc -l WCEjemplo 
4 WCEjemplo

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc -L WCEjemplo 
12 WCEjemplo

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc --version
wc (GNU coreutils) 8.20
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

[rrc@Llawyr ComandosDeLaTerminal]$ wc --help
Usage: wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
  or:  wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -,
read standard input.  A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters
delimited by white space.
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in
the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
  -c, --bytes            print the byte counts
  -m, --chars            print the character counts
  -l, --lines            print the newline counts
      --files0-from=F    read input from the files specified by
                           NUL-terminated names in file F;
                           If F is - then read names from standard input
  -L, --max-line-length  print the length of the longest line
  -w, --words            print the word counts
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

Report wc bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'wc invocation'