User Commands                                               wc(1)



NAME
     wc - display a count of lines, words  and  characters  in  a
     file

SYNOPSIS
  /usr/bin/wc
     /usr/bin/wc [ options ] [file ...]


  ksh93
     wc [ options ] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
     wc reads one or more input files and, by default, for each file
     writes a line containing the number of newlines, words, and bytes
     contained in each file followed by the file name to standard
     output in that order. A word is defined to be a non-zero length
     string delimited by iswspace(3C) or isspace(3C) characters.

     If more than one file is specified, wc writes a total count for
     all of the named files with total written instead of the file
     name.

     By default, wc writes all three counts. Options can specified so
     that only certain counts are written. The options -c and -m are
     mutually exclusive.

     If no file is given, or if the file is -, wc reads from standard
     input and no filename is written to standard output. The start of
     the file is defined as the current offset.


OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -l, --lines     List the line counts.

     -w, --words     List the word counts. Delimiting  characters 
                     are Extended Unix Code (EUC) characters from any code
                     set defined by iswspace().

     -c, --bytes|chars
                     List the byte counts.

     -m|C, --multibyte-chars
                     List the character counts.

     -q, --quiet     Suppress invalid multibyte character warnings.

     -L, --longest-line|max-line-length
                     List the longest line length.

     --man, --html, --nroff
                     Prints builtin manual page in either plain text,
                     HTML or nroff format.
     --help          Prints basic help information
     --version       Prints version information


     If no option is  specified,  the  default  is  -lwc  (counts
     lines, words, and bytes.)

OPERANDS
     The following operand is supported:





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User Commands                                               wc(1)



     file     A path name of an input file. If no  file  operands
              are specified, the standard input will be used.



USAGE
     See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior  of  wc
     when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2
    **31 bytes).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
     variables  that  affect  the  execution of wc: LANG, LC_ALL,
     LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0        Successful completion.



     >0       An error occurred.



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | CSI                         | Enabled                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Standard                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     cksum(1), ksh93(1), isspace(3C), iswalpha(3C), iswspace(3C),
     setlocale(3C),   attributes(5),   environ(5),  largefile(5),
     standards(5)










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