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WC

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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

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