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WC(1)			    General Commands Manual			 WC(1)

NAME
       wc - word count

SYNOPSIS
       wc [ -lwrbc ] [ file ...	 ]

DESCRIPTION
       Wc  counts  lines,  words,  runes,  syntactically-invalid UTF codes and
       bytes in	the named files, or in the standard input if no	file is	named.
       A word is a maximal string of characters	delimited by spaces,  tabs  or
       newlines.  The count of runes includes invalid codes.

       If  the optional	argument is present, just the specified	counts (lines,
       words, runes, broken UTF	codes or bytes)	are selected by	the letters l,
       w, r, b,	or c.  Otherwise, lines, words and bytes (-lwc)	are reported.

SOURCE
       /src/cmd/wc.c

BUGS
       The Unicode Standard has	many blank characters  scattered  through  it,
       but wc looks for	only ASCII space, tab and newline.

       Wc  should  have	 options  to count suboptimal UTF codes	and bytes that
       cannot occur in any UTF code.

									 WC(1)

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