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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
       filenames  are  given, count reads from standard	input. Any combination
       of options 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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