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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 nonempty sequence of non white space delimited by white space characters or by start or end of input.
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
- --total=WHEN
- when to print a line with total counts; WHEN can be: auto, always, only, never
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR¶
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS¶
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COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://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.
SEE ALSO¶
Full documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
September 2024 | GNU coreutils 9.5 |