TH WC 1
SH NAME
wc \- word count
SH SYNOPSIS
B wc
[
B -lwrbc
]
[
I file ...
]
SH DESCRIPTION
I Wc
counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid
SM UTF
codes and bytes in the named
IR files ,
or in the standard input if no file is named.
A word is a maximal string of characters
delimited by spaces, tabs or newlines.
The count of runes includes invalid codes.
PP
If the optional argument is present,
just the specified counts (lines, words, runes, broken
SM UTF
codes or bytes)
are selected by the letters
BR l ,
BR w ,
BR r ,
BR b ,
or
BR c .
Otherwise, lines, words and bytes
RB ( -lwc )
are reported.
SH SOURCE
B /sys/src/cmd/wc.c
SH BUGS
The Unicode Standard has many blank characters scattered through it,
but
I wc
looks for only
SM ASCII
space, tab and newline.
br
I Wc
should have options to count suboptimal
SM UTF
codes
and bytes that cannot occur in any
SM UTF
code.

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