wc(1)

💖 wc(1) — the bestie who counts things for you 💖

okay so this is the manual for wc, from the uutils coreutils squad. it counts stuff. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

wc — Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified.

no cap, that's literally it. she counts. she reports. she slays 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wc [-c|--bytes] [-m|--chars] [--files0-from] [-l|--lines]
[-L|--max-line-length] [--total] [-w|--words] [-h|--help] [-V|--version]
[files]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified.

bestie. she's the friend in the group chat who's like "okay so you said 47 words just now, and 3 of them were 'literally'". that's wc. hand her some files and she'll hand you the receipts. hand her more than one file and she'll even do a lil total line at the bottom, like a true team player. periodt. 💖

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

so many lil flags, so little time. pick your faves:

• -c, --bytes — print the byte counts 💀 (yes, bytes. the raw ones. one byte = one little guy.)
• -m, --chars — print the character counts 🌈 (chars can be multiple bytes bestie, that's the whole point of her existing separately)
• --files0-from <F> — read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file <F>; If <F> is - then read names from standard input ✨
• -l, --lines — print the newline counts 🎀 (how many times you hit enter, we're counting)
• -L, --max-line-length — print the length of the longest line 👑 (the main character line, the one that ate)
• --total <WHEN> — when to print a line with total counts; <WHEN> can be: auto, always, only, never 🦋
• -w, --words — print the word counts 💜
• -h, --help — Print help 🙈
• -V, --version — Print version ⭐
• [files] — the files. the actual files. the ones you want counted. 🍓

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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💀 just a lil heads up bestie: if you don't hand her any files at all, that's on you to figure out from the options above — the page doesn't spell it out, so i'm not gonna invent it. no guessing in this house. 🫶

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okay that's the whole page!! now go count something and feel iconic about it 🧚

uutils coreutils 0.7.0 — this lil beauty is wc(1) from the General Commands Manual, and that's the sign-off bestie, mwah 💅💖✨