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WC(1)                            User Commands                           WC(1)

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
       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>;
       Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>;
AUTHOR
       Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2013 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 com-
       mand
              info coreutils 'wc invocation'
       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.22               November 2020                           WC(1)