Using ‘wc’ and ‘sort’ commands to showing file details

A Linux Hosting India administrator use a number highly useful commands to execute the file handling processes. ‘wc’ command is also used to perform a number of specific file functions in Linux hosting. Find below the syntax of this command.

• $ wc[options] filename: Gives the number of lines, words and characters in a file called filename
• wc –l filename : Gives the number of lines
• wc –w filename : Gives the number of words
• wc –c filename : Gives the number of characters
• Sort: It prints the lines of the file in sorted order.

Syntax: $ sort filename