wc

wc -l

• https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/wc.1.html

-m, --chars

echo yourstringtocountcharacters | wc -m
28

Related commands

• grep

See also

• ack, ag, grep, egrep, fgrep, agrep, ngrep, pgrep, awk, sed, strings, tr, tail, mtail, git grep, wc, uniq, LogQL, findstr (Windows), rg, git-grep, cut
• wc, wc -l
• file, File system, directory, touch, mkdir, ls, ln truncate, fallocate, split, stat, inode, File descriptor, superblock, block size (blockdev), fuser, lsof, scrub, chattr, ulimit (nofiles), cp, mv, file (command), mkfifo, chmod