wc is short for word count is a command to count the words and text lines for each argument file.
• Display the line count
# wc -l <filename>
• Display the byte count
# wc -c <filename>
• Display the character count
# wc -m <filename>
• Display the newline count
# wc -l <filename>
• Display the length of longest line
# wc -L <filename>
•Display the word count
# wc -w <filename>
