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Wc (Unix)

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wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix-like operating systems. [1]

9 relations: Byte, Character (computing), GNU, GNU Core Utilities, List of Unix commands, Newline, Unicode, Unix-like, Word count.

Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits, representing a binary number.

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Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

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GNU

GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software.

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GNU Core Utilities

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing reimplementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

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List of Unix commands

This is a list of Unix commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS).

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Newline

Newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), line feed, or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in a character encoding specification, e.g. ASCII or EBCDIC.

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Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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Unix-like

A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.

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Word count

The word count is the number of words in a document or passage of text.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wc_(Unix)

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