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 printable 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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

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SEE ALSO

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>

or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2022 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.