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Discussion Forum : Unix - Section 1 (Q.No. 9)
9.
Which command sends the word count of the file infile to the newfile.
wc infile >newfile
wc <infile >newfile
wc infile - newfile
wc infile | newfile
None of the above
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Rishab said:   10 years ago
Agreed with @Rohit.

I was going to say the same thing also. A and B are both correct.

And also we need wc-w.

Rohit said:   1 decade ago
wc <infile >newfile.

It can also be used to copy word count,line number and characters to newfile.

So option A and B both is right.

Abd said:   1 decade ago
Why not wc infile | newfile?

Narayanan said:   1 decade ago
But wc -w infile>newfile option is not present.

Siva Rajesh said:   1 decade ago
wc command gives other details like number of lines and characters.

"wc -w" will give the exact number of words of a file.

So for the above question the correct answer is,

wc -w infile>newfile

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