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
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
GNU coreutils
online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright
© 2018 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.
Full
documentation at:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc
invocation'