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.TH WC "1" "October 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.20" "User Commands"
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wc \- print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
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[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIFILE\fR]...
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[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fI--files0-from=F\fR
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Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
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more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is \-,
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read standard input. A word is a non\-zero\-length sequence of characters
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delimited by white space.
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The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in
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the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
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\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR
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\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-chars\fR
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print the character counts
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\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR
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print the newline counts
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\fB\-\-files0\-from\fR=\fIF\fR
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read input from the files specified by
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NUL\-terminated names in file F;
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If F is \- then read names from standard input
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\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-max\-line\-length\fR
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print the length of the longest line
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\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-words\fR
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display this help and exit
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output version information and exit
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Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
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Report wc bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
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GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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The full documentation for
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is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
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programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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.B info coreutils \(aqwc invocation\(aq
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should give you access to the complete manual.
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