How to count bytes?

To count the number of bytes in a file in a Linux terminal, you can use the wc command with the -c option. Here’s how to do it:

wc -c filename.txt

Replace filename.txt with the name of the file you want to analyze.

To count the bytes in a file named example.txt, you would use:

wc -c example.txt

The output will look something like this:

  300 example.txt

This indicates that the file example.txt contains 300 bytes.

You can also use the stat command to get the size of a file in bytes:

stat -c %s filename.txt

This command will return just the size in bytes without any additional information.