Getting word count from file in unix/linux

syntax: wc filename

WC command will display the total number of lines, words and characters from file.

Example: $ wc filename

2 30 100 filename

First column - Total number of lines (2 lines in example file)
Second column - number of words (30 words in example file)
Third column - number of characters (100 characters in example file)

To get only line count from file

$ wc -l filename

2 filename

To get only word count from file

$ wc -w filename

30 filename

To get only character count from file

$ wc -c filename

100 filename