Haskell: Count number of characters in a file

charCount.hs

main = interact wordCount
       where wordCount input = show (length input) ++ "\n"

Suppose input.txt has following data.

input.txt

Friendship can turn into enmity, and enmity can become friendship. 
You all know — happiness can turn into sadness, and sadness can change into happiness. 
Although they are polar opposites, they are almost like twins, very close. 
Just a slight change in circumstances and one disappears …the other was just behind it. 
So remember the transcendent — existence belongs to the transcendental. 
Don’t divide it; otherwise you will be continuously tortured by the duality.

$ runghc charCount < input.txt
470

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