Editing Linux commands (section)

=== Newline count (count the number of lines of a file), word count ===
* {{kbd | key= <nowiki>wc -l <filename></nowiki>}} for {{Linux}} <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wc_(Unix) wc (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]</ref> ex: {{kbd | key= <nowiki>wc -l *.txt</nowiki>}} to print the newline count of txt files of the current folder 
* {{kbd | key= <nowiki>find . -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l</nowiki>}} for {{Linux}} & {{Mac}} to print the newline count of all files on all subdirectories<ref>[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13727917/use-wc-on-all-subdirectories-to-count-the-sum-of-lines linux - Use wc on all subdirectories to count the sum of lines - Stack Overflow]</ref>
* {{kbd | key= <nowiki>wc -l "$(cygpath -u '<path to file>')"</nowiki>}} for cygwin on {{Win}} ex: {{kbd | key= <nowiki>wc -l "$(cygpath -u 'c:\Program Files\file.txt')"</nowiki>}}<ref>[[Cygwin convert windows path to linux path]]</ref>

{{exclaim}} [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28038633/wc-l-is-not-counting-last-of-the-file-if-it-does-not-have-end-of-line-character linux - wc -l is NOT counting last of the file if it does not have end of line character - Stack Overflow]