07:16 AM [steve@stevehost ~/tok]$ time ./wcl /boot/initramfs-linux-ck-fallback.img
36661

real    0m0.027s
user    0m0.017s
sys     0m0.007s
07:16 AM [steve@stevehost ~/tok]$ time wc -l /boot/initramfs-linux-ck-fallback.img
36661 /boot/initramfs-linux-ck-fallback.img

real    0m0.021s
user    0m0.013s
sys     0m0.007s