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- WC (1)
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- NAME
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- wc - Word, line, and byte count.
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- SYNOPSIS
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- wc [ clw ] [ file ]
- DESCRIPTION
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- The wc utility reads one or more input text files, and, by de-
- fault, writes the number of lines, words, and bytes contained in
- each input file to the standard output. If more than one input
- file is specified, a line of cumulative count(s) for all named
- files is output on a separate line following the last file count.
- Wc considers a word to be a maximal string of characters delimit-
- ed by white space.
- The following options are available:
- c - The number of bytes in each input file is written to the
- standard output.
- l - The number of lines in each input file is written to the
- standard output.
- w - The number of words in each input file is written to the
- standard output.
- When an option is specified, wc only reports the information
- requested by that option. The default action is equivalent to all
- the flags having been specified.
- The following operands are available:
- file - A pathname of an input file.
- If no file names are specified, the standard input is used and
- a file name is not output. The resulting output is one line of
- the requested count(s) with the cumulative sum of all files read
- in via standard input.
- By default, the standard output contains a line for each input
- file of the form: lines words bytes file_name
- The counts for lines, words and bytes are integers separated by
- spaces. The ordering of the display of the number of lines,
- words, and/or bytes is the order in which the options were speci-
- fied.
- The wc utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
- STANDARDS
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- The wc function conforms to
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