Man1 - wc.1

wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

wc [/OPTION/]… [/FILE/]…
wc [/OPTION/]… –files0-from=F

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

Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

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