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COUNT(1L)		     Schily's USER COMMANDS		       COUNT(1L)

NAME
     count - counts items in a file

SYNOPSIS
     count [ options ] file1 ... filen

DESCRIPTION
     Count  reads all of the specified files and produces one line of output for
     each input file: the number of the characters, the number of  'words',  and
     the number of lines in the specified files. 'Words' is an arbitrary term in
     reference	to programs, because they tend to have a lot of punctuation. For
     text files a word is a sequence of characters separated by white space.

     If more than one file is given, a grand total is also printed.  If no file-
     names are given, count reads from standard input. Any  combination  of  op-
     tions works; the default is (-c -w -l -llen -t).

OPTIONS
     All options except tab= and -llen can be abbreviated to their first letter.
     The option -llen can be abbreviated with -ll.

     -chars    Counts characters based on bytes.

     -mchars   Counts multi byte characters.

     -words    Counts words.

     -lines    Counts lines.

     -llen     Counts maximum line length.

     tab=tab width
	       Set  the  width	of  a tab to tab width for counting maximum line
	       length.

     -stat     Use stat(2) system call to get the character  count  of	a  file.
	       This is much faster but cannot count anything but characters.

     -total    Grand totals of several files.

     -help     Prints a short summary of the count options and exists.

     -version  Prints the count version number string and exists.

BUGS
     None currently known.

     Mail  bugs  and  suggestions  to  schilytools@mlists.in-berlin.de or open a
     ticket at https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/issues

     The mailing list archive may be found at:

     https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de

AUTHORS
     Joerg Schilling and the schilytools project authors.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD
     The source code for count is included in the schilytools project and may be
     retrieved from the schilytools project at Codeberg at:

     https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/

     The download directory is:

     https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/releases

Joerg Schilling 		   2022/07/17			       COUNT(1L)

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