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2 .TH WC "1" "May 2014" "GNU coreutils 8.21" "User Commands"
4 wc \- print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
7 [\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIFILE\fR]...
10 [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fI--files0-from=F\fR
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14 Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
15 more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is \-,
16 read standard input. A word is a non\-zero\-length sequence of characters
17 delimited by white space.
18 The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in
19 the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
21 \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR
24 \fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-chars\fR
25 print the character counts
27 \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR
28 print the newline counts
30 \fB\-\-files0\-from\fR=\fIF\fR
31 read input from the files specified by
32 NUL\-terminated names in file F;
33 If F is \- then read names from standard input
35 \fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-max\-line\-length\fR
36 print the length of the longest line
38 \fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-words\fR
42 display this help and exit
45 output version information and exit
47 Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
49 Report wc bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
51 GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
53 General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
55 Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
57 Copyright \(co 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
58 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
60 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
61 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
63 The full documentation for
65 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
69 programs are properly installed at your site, the command
71 .B info coreutils \(aqwc invocation\(aq
73 should give you access to the complete manual.