Can you tell the total length of the genome? This command can take a little bit of time to run!

HINT: Use grep to find all the lines who do not start with the “>” symbol. You can |into another command. The wc command counts lines with the -l argument, but could you count characters instead? Use the argument --help to ask for help if you need to know options for any of the commands used for this challenge.

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