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2 .TH WC "1" "January 2016" "GNU coreutils 8.25" "User Commands"
4 wc \- print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
7 [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
10 [\fI\,OPTION\/\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. A word is a non\-zero\-length sequence of
16 characters delimited by white space.
18 With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
20 The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in
21 the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
23 \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR
26 \fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-chars\fR
27 print the character counts
29 \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR
30 print the newline counts
32 \fB\-\-files0\-from\fR=\fI\,F\/\fR
33 read input from the files specified by
34 NUL\-terminated names in file F;
35 If F is \- then read names from standard input
37 \fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-max\-line\-length\fR
38 print the maximum display width
40 \fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-words\fR
44 display this help and exit
47 output version information and exit
49 Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
51 GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
53 Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
55 Copyright \(co 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
56 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
58 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
59 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
61 Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
63 or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) wc invocation\(aq