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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5.
.TH WC "1" "April 2024" "GNU coreutils 9.5" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
wc \- print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B wc
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
.br
.B wc
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,--files0-from=F\/\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
more than one FILE is specified. A word is a nonempty sequence of non white
space delimited by white space characters or by start or end of input.
.PP
With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
.PP
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in
the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR
print the byte counts
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-chars\fR
print the character counts
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-lines\fR
print the newline counts
.TP
\fB\-\-files0\-from\fR=\fI\,F\/\fR
read input from the files specified by
NUL\-terminated names in file F;
If F is \- then read names from standard input
.TP
\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-max\-line\-length\fR
print the maximum display width
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-words\fR
print the word counts
.TP
\fB\-\-total\fR=\fI\,WHEN\/\fR
when to print a line with total counts;
WHEN can be: auto, always, only, never
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
.br
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) wc invocation\(aq
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