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