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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.
-