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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

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Copyright

Copyright © 2020 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 \(aq(coreutils) wc invocation\(aq