WC(1)				 User Commands				 WC(1)



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

       -w, --words
	      print the word counts

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

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

AUTHOR
       Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2013 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 com-
       mand

	      info coreutils 'wc invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.22		 February 2016				 WC(1)