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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 printable 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, al‐
20       ways in the following order: newline, word,  character,  byte,  maximum
21       line length.
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23       -c, --bytes
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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
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36       -L, --max-line-length
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39       -w, --words
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44              ways, only, never
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46       --help display this help and exit
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AUTHOR

52       Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
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REPORTING BUGS

55       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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59       Copyright  ©  2023  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
60       GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
61       This is free software: you are free  to  change  and  redistribute  it.
62       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

65       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
66       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
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70GNU coreutils 9.3               September 2023                           WC(1)
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