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What is the Windows equivalent of the wc linux command? I have tried

find /c /v "" file.txt

but it doesn't work: the format of the parameter isn't correct. I have also tried

find --% /c /v "" file.txt

and it does work, but when I try to use this command with other commands, it doesn't work. For example:

sort file.txt | Unique | find --% /c /v ""

In this way, it counts 0 words, even if the file contains more. Can someone please help me?

thank you! I tried this command and it works when I use it alone, but when I use it with the other commands I wrote in the first post, then it counts 0 :( – Irene Dec 14, 2021 at 16:41 I'm not near any windows machines at the moment, so i cannot try; but judging by the "man" page; perhaps @( $( foreach ($line in Get-Content C:\test.txt) { $line.tolower().split(" ") }) | Sort-Object | Get-Unique ).length – Raxi Dec 14, 2021 at 17:27

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