Linux cli command wc

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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. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of printable characters delimited by white space.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

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 maximum display width

-w, –words
print the word counts

–total=WHEN
when to print a line with total counts; WHEN can be: auto, always, only, never

–help
display this help and exit

–version
output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) wc invocation’

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