• 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.

  -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

• AUTHOR
  
  Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
• REPORTING BUGS
  
  Report wc bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
  GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
  General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
• COPYRIGHT
  
  Copyright © 2009 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 command info coreutils (aqwc invocation(aq
  
  should give you access to the complete manual.

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