Bash: Command to Find the Length of a String

Created: 17th Aug 23 2 Views

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If you are on the bash shell and want to know what is the length of a string, then you can make use of the wc command.

Example:

bash-3.2$ echo -n "This is my string" | wc -c

      17

We need the -n flag or else a new-line character will get added to the length.

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