How to count lines, words, and characters in a text file using Bash?

To count lines, words, and characters in a text file using Bash, you can use a combination of shell commands such as wc and input/output redirection.

  1. Open your terminal and navigate to the directory containing the text file.
  2. Use the wc command to count lines, words, and characters. The -l option will count lines, -w option will count words, and -m option will count characters.

Here's the command you can use:

wc -l -w -m < filename.txt

Replace filename.txt with the name of your text file.

Running this command will display the count of lines, words, and characters in the text file.