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- NAME
- wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
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- SYNOPSIS
- wc [-clw] [--bytes] [--chars] [--lines] [--words] [--help]
- [--version] [file...]
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of wc. wc
- counts the number of bytes, whitespace-separated words,
- and newlines in each given file, or the standard input if
- none are given or when a file named `-' is given. It
- prints one line of counts for each file, and if the file
- was given as an argument, it prints the filename following
- the counts. If more than one filename is given, wc prints
- a final line containing the cumulative counts, with the
- filename `total'. The counts are printed in the order:
- lines, words, bytes.
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- By default, wc prints all three counts. Options can spec-
- ify that only certain counts be printed. Options do not
- undo others previously given, so wc --bytes --words prints
- both the byte counts and the word counts.
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- OPTIONS
- -c, --bytes, --chars
- Print only the byte counts.
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- -w, --words
- Print only the word counts.
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- -l, --lines
- Print only the newline counts.
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- --help Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
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- --version
- Print version information on standard error then
- exit.
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