bash: wc

WC(1)  User Commands 

NAME
       wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

SYNOPSIS
       wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
       wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

DESCRIPTION
       Print  newline,  word,  and  byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.  A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters delimited by white space.  The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum  line length.


       -c, --bytes
              print the byte counts

       -m, --chars
              print the character counts

       -l, --lines
              print the newline counts

       --files0-from=F
              read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then  read  names  from
              standard input

       -L, --max-line-length
              print the length of the longest line

       -w, --words
              print the word counts

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit


              
For example:
              
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat /etc/manpath.config |head|wc -c
433
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat /etc/manpath.config |head|wc -m
433

-c :   统计文件中的字节数
-m:    统计文件内容中的字符数，若文件内容都是单字节字符，则等同于-c选项

所以A-Z a-z 0-9大多数字符都是 (1 byte in size)，因此-c和-m参数使用的结果会一样！

BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 2.txt
你好
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 2.txt|wc -c
7 (每个中文占3个字节+1个字节结束符）
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 2.txt|wc -m
3（每个中文为1个字符+1个结束符）
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 2.txt|wc -l
1


BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 3.txt
hello
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 3.txt|wc -c
6
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 3.txt|wc -m
6
BJS\lisa.liu@lisaliuubtpc:~$ cat 3.txt|wc -l
1