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.TH WC "1" "September 2011" "GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
wc \- print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B wc
[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIFILE\fR]...
.br
.B wc
[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fI--files0-from=F\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is \-,
read standard input.  A word is a non\-zero\-length sequence of characters
delimited by white space.
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in
the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR
print the byte counts
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-chars\fR
print the character counts
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR
print the newline counts
.TP
\fB\-\-files0\-from\fR=\fIF\fR
read input from the files specified by
NUL\-terminated names in file F;
If F is \- then read names from standard input
.TP
\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-max\-line\-length\fR
print the length of the longest line
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-words\fR
print the word counts
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report wc bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
.br
Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B wc
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B wc
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils \(aqwc invocation\(aq
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.