WC(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

wc − display a count of lines, words and characters

SYNOPSIS

wc [ −lwc ] [ filename ... ]

DESCRIPTION

wc counts lines, words, and characters in filenames, or in the standard input if no filename appears. It also keeps a total count for all named files. A word is a string of characters delimited by SPACE, TAB, or NEWLINE characters.

OPTIONS

When filenames are specified on the command line, their names will be printed along with the counts.

The default is −lwc (count lines, words, and characters).

l Count lines.

w Count words.

c Count characters.

EXAMPLE

example%
wc /usr/share/man/man1/{csh.1,sh.1,telnet.1}
18761122365895 /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1
674331020338 /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1
26011106834 /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1
28101564393067 total
example%