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1 .TH WC 1 |
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2 .SH NAME |
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3 wc \- word count |
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4 .SH SYNOPSIS |
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5 .B wc |
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6 [ |
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7 .B -lwrbc |
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8 ] |
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9 [ |
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10 .I file ... |
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11 ] |
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12 .SH DESCRIPTION |
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13 .I Wc |
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14 counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid |
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15 .SM UTF |
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16 codes and bytes in the named |
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17 .IR files , |
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18 or in the standard input if no file is named. |
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19 A word is a maximal string of characters |
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20 delimited by spaces, tabs or newlines. |
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21 The count of runes includes invalid codes. |
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22 .PP |
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23 If the optional argument is present, |
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24 just the specified counts (lines, words, runes, broken |
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25 .SM UTF |
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26 codes or bytes) |
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27 are selected by the letters |
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28 .BR l , |
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29 .BR w , |
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30 .BR r , |
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31 .BR b , |
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32 or |
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33 .BR c . |
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34 Otherwise, lines, words and bytes |
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35 .RB ( -lwc ) |
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36 are reported. |
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37 .SH SOURCE |
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38 .B \*9/src/cmd/wc.c |
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39 .SH BUGS |
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40 The Unicode Standard has many blank characters scattered through it, |
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41 but |
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42 .I wc |
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43 looks for only |
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44 .SM ASCII |
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45 space, tab and newline. |
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46 .PP |
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47 .I Wc |
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48 should have options to count suboptimal |
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49 .SM UTF |
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50 codes |
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51 and bytes that cannot occur in any |
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52 .SM UTF |
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53 code. |
