What is the difference between commands "wc `grep -l int `" and "grep -l int | wc"?

Question

What is the difference between these two commands:

wc `grep -l int *`
grep -l int * | wc

How does the output differ?

Have you tried the commands? Do a `man wc`. `wc` gives number of lines, number of words, number of letters. — Jotne, Jan 31 '15 at 07:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 15 '15 at 02:49

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wc `grep -l int *`

This will give you count of words/lines/characters for each file containing string "int".

grep -l int * | wc`

This will give you count of words/lines/characters of the output generated by grep -l int *

edited Feb 15 '15 at 02:49

Jonathan Leffler

answered Jan 31 '15 at 17:27

Potter_nsit

What is the difference between commands "wc `grep -l int *`" and "grep -l int * | wc"?