wc — print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
wc
[OPTION
...] [FILE
...]
wc
[OPTION
...] −−files0−from
=F
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
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
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