wc: Print byte, word, and line counts

wc counts the number of bytes, whitespace-separated words, and newlines in each given file, or standard input if none are given or for a file of `-'. Synopsis:

wc [option]... [file]...

wc prints one line of counts for each file, and if the file was given as an argument, it prints the file name following the counts. If more than one file is given, wc prints a final line containing the cumulative counts, with the file name `total'. The counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, bytes.

By default, wc prints all three counts. Options can specify that only certain counts be printed. Options do not undo others previously given, so

wc --bytes --words

prints both the byte counts and the word counts.

The program accepts the following options. Also see section Common options.

`-c'

`--bytes'

`--chars'

Print only the byte counts.

`-w'

`--words'

Print only the word counts.

`-l'

`--lines'

Print only the newline counts.

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