wc (1) Linux Manual Page
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. 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’