Well, maybe not wc directly, but they have access to sandboxed Python environments. It must be trivial for an LLM to write the Python code that calculates this.

I don't understand why Gemini insists that it can count the lines itself, instead of falling back to its Python tool [1].

[1] https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S/blob/main/GOOGLE/G...