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How many lines are in this log? How many words in this document? How many user accounts in this list? One small command answers all of these: wc — short for word count, though it counts lines and bytes too.

• wc — lines, words, and bytes all at once
• wc -l — just the line count (the one you'll use most)
• wc -w — just the word count
• wc -c — just the byte count

It becomes really powerful when you pipe other commands into it to count results. Your files live in projects: poem.txt and names.txt. Move into that folder first.