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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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 © 2017 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.