Manual page for wc(1)
wc - display a count of lines, words and characters in a file
SYNOPSIS
wc
[
-c | -m | -C
]
[
-lw
] [
file ...
]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWcsu
DESCRIPTION
The
wc
utility reads one or more input files
and, by default, writes the number of
newline characters,
words and bytes contained in each input file to the standard output.
The utility also writes a total count for all named files,
if more than one input file is specified.
wc
considers a
word
to be a non-zero-length string of characters delimited by white space
(for example,
SPACE,
TAB ).
See
iswspace.3i
or
isspace.3c
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
- -c
-
Count bytes.
- -m
-
Count characters.
- -C
-
Same as
-m.
- -l
-
Count lines.
- -w
-
Count words delimited by white space characters or new line
characters.
Delimiting characters are Extended Unix Code (EUC)
characters from any code set defined by
iswspace().
If no option is specified the default is
-lwc
(count lines, words, and bytes.)
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
- file
-
A path name of an input file.
If no
file
operands are specified,
the standard input will be used.
ENVIRONMENT
See
environ.5
for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the
execution of
wc:
LC_CTYPE,
LC_MESSAGES,
and
NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
- 0
-
Successful completion.
- >0
-
An error occurred.
SEE ALSO
isspace.3c
iswalpha.3i
iswspace.3i
setlocale.3c
environ.5
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
