Interview Q&A / Linux & Shell

1. What does the wc command count, and how do you use its options?

   wc counts lines, words and bytes in a file or input. wc -l counts lines, -w words, -c bytes and -m characters. It is most often used at the end of a pipeline, such as grep error log | wc -l, to count matches.

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