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. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
-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 length of the longest line
-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


Report wc bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT


Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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


The full documentation for wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'wc invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.

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