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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.

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