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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.
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18       -c, --bytes
19              print the byte counts
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21       -m, --chars
22              print the character counts
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24       -l, --lines
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27       --files0-from=F
28              read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated  names  in
29              file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
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31       -L, --max-line-length
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34       -w, --words
35              print the word counts
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37       --help display this help and exit
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39       --version
40              output version information and exit
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AUTHOR

43       Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
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REPORTING BUGS

46       Report wc bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
47       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
48       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
49       Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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52       Copyright  ©  2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
53       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
54       This is free software: you are free  to  change  and  redistribute  it.
55       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

58       The  full  documentation  for wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
59       the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the  com‐
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62              info coreutils 'wc invocation'
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68GNU coreutils 8.5                November 2010                           WC(1)
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