sed search and wc

I have a file of the following

>!#jjdjahfjdhfjkds
aklsjdlkasdkashfjkdshfkjdsbfnbsdkjnfbdsk
>*kfjhdsafjdshjfkhdsjkfhdsk
wuyruiewyrieyueytireuytreyu
>-jdfhsjsjkdhfd
xzmncxzbvnmcxbvbcxn

I would like to do a wc for the lines starting with >

For the above example, the result is 3.

Thanks in advance.

Hi.

You can easily do that with grep

$ grep -c '^>' file
3

grep -c "^>" inputfile

grep "^>" inputfile | wc -l

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Late post: Already answered by Scott