User Commands                                               WC(1)



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

SYNOPSIS
     wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
     wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

DESCRIPTION
     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.

     -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

     -L, --max-line-length
          print the length of the longest line

     -w, --words
          print the word counts

     --help
          display this help and exit

     --version
          output version information and exit

AUTHOR
     Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for wc is  maintained  as  a  Texinfo



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     manual.   If the info and wc programs are properly installed
     at your site, the command

          info wc

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.

































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