WC

 

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. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters delimited by white space. 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 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.