The Word Count Command
By using the wc command, you can print out word count information to the terminal. By default, if you use the wc command along with a file path, the command will return 3 values: the line count, word count, and character count of that file.
You can also pipe the wc command into any other terminal command to receive the word count information about the previous command. For instance, you could use the command ls | wc to see the word count info for the current directory's file list.
If you want the wc command to only output either the line count, word count, or char count, you can pass it the following flags: wc -l for line count, wc -w for word count, and wc -c for the char count.