wc(1) | General Commands Manual | wc(1) |
NAME
wc - Display 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.
SYNOPSIS
wc [-c|--bytes] [-m|--chars] [--files0-from] [-l|--lines] [-L|--max-line-length] [--total] [-w|--words] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]
DESCRIPTION
Display 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.
OPTIONS
- -c, --bytes
- print the byte counts
- -m, --chars
- print the character 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, --lines
- print the newline counts
- -L, --max-line-length
- print the length of the longest line
- --total=WHEN
- when to print a line with total counts;
WHEN can be: auto, always, only, never - -w, --words
- print the word counts
- -h, --help
- Print help
- -V, --version
- Print version
- [files]
VERSION
v0.0.27
wc 0.0.27 |