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6 wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
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9 wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
10 wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
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13 Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
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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, al‐
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23 -c, --bytes
24 print the byte counts
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27 print the character counts
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33 read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in
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36 -L, --max-line-length
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40 print the word counts
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42 --help display this help and exit
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48 Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
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51 GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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55 Copyright © 2022 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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61 Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
62 or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
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66GNU coreutils 9.1 May 2023 WC(1)