Manpages - wc.1

NAME

wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

SYNOPSIS

wc [/OPTION/]… [/FILE/]…
wc [/OPTION/]… –files0-from=F

DESCRIPTION

Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a nonempty sequence of non white space delimited by white space characters or by start or end of input.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.

-c, –bytes: print the byte counts
-m, –chars: print the character counts
-l, –lines: print the newline counts
*–files0-from*=/F/: read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
-L, –max-line-length: print the maximum display width
-w, –words: print the word counts
*–total*=/WHEN/: when to print a line with total counts; WHEN can be: auto, always, only, never
–help: display this help and exit
–version: output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

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