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.TH WC "1" "July 2018" "GNU coreutils 8.30" "User Commands"

.SH NAME

wc \- print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B wc

[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...

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.B wc

[\fI\,OPTION\/\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.  A word is a non\-zero\-length sequence of

characters delimited by white space.

.PP

With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.

.PP

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=\fI\,F\/\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 maximum display width

.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"

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

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Report wc translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

.SH COPYRIGHT

Copyright \(co 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

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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"

Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>

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or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) wc invocation\(aq