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WC(1)				 User Commands				 WC(1)

NAME
       wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

SYNOPSIS
       wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
       wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

DESCRIPTION
       Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
       more than one FILE is specified.	 With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read
       standard	 input.	  A  word  is a non-zero-length sequence of characters
       delimited by white space.  The options below  may  be  used  to	select
       which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word,
       character, byte, maximum line length.

       -c, --bytes
	      print the byte counts

       -m, --chars
	      print the character counts

       -l, --lines
	      print the newline counts

       --files0-from=F
	      read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated  names  in
	      file F; If F is - then read names from standard input

       -L, --max-line-length
	      print the length of the longest line

       -w, --words
	      print the word counts

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR
       Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.	 License  GPLv3+:  GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This  is	 free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for wc is maintained as a	 Texinfo  manual.   If
       the  info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
       mand

	      info coreutils 'wc invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.22		  April 2014				 WC(1)

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