wc - word (and other things) counter

wc [-lwbrc] [file...]

Description

The wc command sends to standard output a tally of words, lines and characters found in the named UTF text files. If no files are named, standard input is read. One line is output per file. If multiple files are specified, an additional total line is produced.

Values are output in decimal format and are output in the same order as the listing of options (below).

The whitespace characters used in this calculation are:

' '

(blank)

'\t'

(tab)

'\n'

(newline)

' '	(blank)
'\t'	(tab)
'\n'	(newline)

A word is defined to be a sequence of non-whitespace characters separated by one or more whitespace characters.

Options

-l (default)

Count lines

-w (default)

Count words

-c (default)

Count characters

-b

Count bytes

-e

Count erroneously encoded characters

-l (default)	Count lines
-w (default)	Count words
-c (default)	Count characters
-b	Count bytes
-e	Count erroneously encoded characters

wc - word (and other things) counter

Description

Options -l (default) Count lines -w (default) Count words -c (default) Count characters -b Count bytes -e Count erroneously encoded characters

See Also UTF, Unicode, ASCII - character set and format in Appendix A

Options

-l (default)

Count lines

-w (default)

Count words

-c (default)

Count characters

-b

Count bytes

-e

Count erroneously encoded characters

See Also

UTF, Unicode, ASCII - character set and format in Appendix A