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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

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/>
       Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2011 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 'wc invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb		     September 2011					   WC(1)