How to count number of characters of wc -l output?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I want count number of characters / find the length of the 'wc -l' output

This is the command

bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l
  830752

So final out I want is 6 i.e lenght of 830752

I tried with awk

bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l | awk '{print length ($0) }'
8

it gave me 8, possibly padding the first two characters.

Can someone help me achieve this?

Thanks

2

See the man pages. wc. -l counts lines

the wc version on bash provides a -m, -c and -k switch to count characters.

3

That doesnt solve my problem. I want the count of characters of the row count of all rows. Which means I need the count of wc -l

4 
 
wc -l  yourfile | awk -F" " '{print length($1)}'

still not sure what you are looking for

 
y=$(cat yourfile | wc -l)
echo "${#y}"