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NAME

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

9       wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
10       wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
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DESCRIPTION

13       Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
14       more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read
15       standard  input.   A  word  is a non-zero-length sequence of characters
16       delimited by white space.  The options below  may  be  used  to  select
17       which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word,
18       character, byte, maximum line length.
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20       -c, --bytes
21              print the byte counts
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23       -m, --chars
24              print the character counts
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26       -l, --lines
27              print the newline counts
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29       --files0-from=F
30              read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated  names  in
31              file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
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33       -L, --max-line-length
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39       --help display this help and exit
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41       --version
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44       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
45       Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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AUTHOR

48       Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
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51       Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU
52       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
53       This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
54       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

57       The full documentation for wc is maintained as a  Texinfo  manual.   If
58       the  info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
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61              info coreutils 'wc invocation'
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67GNU coreutils 8.22               October 2018                            WC(1)
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