About
Reports how many lines, words, characters and bytes its input holds, alone or together. It is the quickest way to size up a log or document. With several inputs it adds a total line.
Install it
Included with Termux
Run this inside Termux. If the package is already present, pkg will say so and
do nothing.
Commands worth knowing
6 of the invocations you will actually reach for. Tap the copy button to put one on your clipboard.
wc -l app.log Count only the lines. A fast way to see how busy a log is. wc -w essay.txt Count whitespace-separated words in a document. wc -c payload.json Report the byte size of the input. wc -m notes.txt Count characters rather than bytes. That matters for non-ASCII text. wc *.txt Report a count for each path, then a combined total. wc -L src/main.c Print the length of the longest line. Useful for spotting runaway rows. Worked example
Run wc *.txt and this is what you should see.
$ wc *.txt
42 210 1280 notes.txt
17 88 512 todo.txt
59 298 1792 total Developed by
GNU Project .