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.
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.