wc (1) Linux Manual Page
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 non-zero-length sequence of characters delimited by white space.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
- –help
- display this help and exit
- –version
- output version information and exit
Author
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.Reporting Bugs
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Copyright
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) wc invocation’