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NAME
wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
SYNOPSIS
wc [-clw] [--bytes] [--chars] [--lines] [--words] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of wc. wc counts the number
of bytes, whitespace-separated words, and newlines in each given file, or
the standard input if none are given or when a file named `-' is given.
It prints one line of counts for each file, and if the file was given as
an argument, it prints the filename following the counts. If more than
one filename is given, wc prints a final line containing the cumulative
counts, with the filename `total'. The counts are printed in the order:
lines, words, bytes.
By default, wc prints all three counts. Options can specify that only
certain counts be printed. Options do not undo others previously given,
so wc --bytes --words prints both the byte counts and the word counts.
OPTIONS
-c, --bytes, --chars
Print only the byte counts.
-w, --words
Print only the word counts.
-l, --lines
Print only the newline counts.
The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as `--', for
compatibility with previous releases. Eventually support for `+' will be
removed, because it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard.