SYNOPSIS

       wc [-c|-m] [-lw] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Wc  determines  the  number of lines, words and characters contained in
       each file and writes the count in that order to standard output,  sepa-
       rated  by  spaces and followed by the filename.  If no file argument is
       given, standard input is used and no filename is printed.  If more than
       one  input file was processed successfully, a grand total for all files
       is printed in the line of output.

       The wc command accepts  the  following  options;  if  any  of  them  is
       present, output is restricted to the specified fields:

       -c     Print the number of bytes.

       -l     Print the number of lines (i. e. newline characters).

       -m     Print  the  number of characters instead of the number of bytes.
              The number of characters equals the number of bytes  in  single-
              byte  locales.   In multibyte locales, this is the count of byte
              sequences forming a valid character.  This option was introduced
              by POSIX.2.

       -w     Print    the   number   of   words.    With   /usr/5bin/wc   and
              /usr/5bin/s42/wc, a word is a string of characters that contains
              at  least  one  graphical character and is delimited by blank or
              newline     characters.      With     /usr/5bin/posix/wc     and
              /usr/5bin/posix2001/wc,  a  word is a nonempty string of charac-
              ters that is delimited by white space.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       LANG, LC_ALL
              See locale(7).

       LC_CTYPE
              Determines the byte sequences that form a character for  the  -m
              option  and  for  the  interpretation  of white space, graphical
              characters and newlines.

SEE ALSO

       cksum(1), locale(7)



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