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/>

Packaged by Cygwin (8.23-4) Copyright © 2014 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.

AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.

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.