wc
Package: WA2L/SimpleBackup 1.0.67
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: February 2016
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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 non-zero-length sequence of
characters delimited by white space.
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
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) wc invocationaq
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