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 printable 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
--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.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils
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Report any translation bugs to
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright
© 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://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
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>;
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc
invocation'