How to Get a Character Count in Unix

Nov 19, 2020

1 minute

If you want to find out how many characters are in a file here's how!

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Change directories to the directory where your target file is located, then type:

wc -l filename

replacing filename with the actual name of your file.

This should output:

$ wc -m test.php
427 test.php

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Use wc -m to count the characters in a file