Multiple choice technology

The wc command is NOT used to count the number of

  1. lines

  2. files

  3. words

  4. characters
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The wc (word count) command counts lines (-l), words (-w), characters (-c or -m), and bytes (-c). It does not have a built-in option to count the number of files. To count files, you would use commands like ls, find, or combined with wc -l. Option B is correct because wc operates on file contents, not file enumeration.

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