wc

Count lines, words, or bytes. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/wc.1.html.

• Count lines in file:

wc -l path/to/file

• Count words in file:

wc -w path/to/file

• Count characters (bytes) in file:

wc -c path/to/file

• Count characters in file (taking multi-byte character sets into account):

wc -m path/to/file

• Use stdin to count lines, words and characters (bytes) in that order:

find . | wc