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. 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.
−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 length of the longest line
−w, −−words
print the word counts
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−−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/>
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
Copyright
© 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://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.
The full documentation for wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'wc invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.