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. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters
delimited by white space.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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 maximum display width
- -w, --words
- print the word counts
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report wc translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later <https://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.
Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'