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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  ©  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 per‐
       mitted 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.