To pass the content of a file to a command in a shell, you can use the `<` operator followed by the name of the file. For example, to pass the content of a file named `input.txt` to the `cat` command, you can use the following command:
The `wc` command is a utility in Unix-like operating systems that is used to count the number of lines, words, and bytes in a file or group of files. The `-l` option tells `wc` to only print the line count for each file.