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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.  A word is a non-zero-length  sequence
15       of characters delimited by white space.
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17       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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19       The  options  below  may  be  used  to select which counts are printed,
20       always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte,  maximum
21       line length.
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23       -c, --bytes
24              print the byte counts
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26       -m, --chars
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29       -l, --lines
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32       --files0-from=F
33              read  input  from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in
34              file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
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36       -L, --max-line-length
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42       --help display this help and exit
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AUTHOR

48       Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
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REPORTING BUGS

51       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
52       Report wc translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
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55       Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU
56       GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
57       This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
58       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

61       Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
62       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
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66GNU coreutils 8.30                 July 2018                             WC(1)
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