From 4d5756fd2b55e610f966fc6c559870607e11ddb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abhishek Yadav <115299126+yadav-7abhishek@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 03:49:14 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] provided answer for count of number of lines and words in a
 file (#10558)

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 topics/linux/README.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/topics/linux/README.md b/topics/linux/README.md
index ebde22e..91696aa 100644
--- a/topics/linux/README.md
+++ b/topics/linux/README.md
@@ -2249,6 +2249,14 @@ $OLDPWD
 
 <details>
 <summary>How to count the number of lines in a file? What about words?</summary><br><b>
+
+For these we can use `wc` command.
+
+1. To count the number of lines in file
+```wc -l```
+
+2. To count the number of words in file
+```wc -w```
 </b></details>
 
 <details>