I would like to use the lines coming from 'wc' as variables. For example:

echo 'foo bar' > file.txt
echo 'blah blah blah' >> file.txt
wc file.txt

2  5 23 file.txt

I would like to have something like $lines, $words and $characters associated to the values 2, 5, and 23. How can I do that in bash?

bash shell wc
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