Name | Synopsis | Description | Options | Operands | Usage | Environment Variables | Exit Status | Attributes | See Also
/usr/bin/wc [options][file...]
wc [options][file...]
wc reads one or more input files and, by default, for each file writes a line containing the number of NEWLINEs, words, and bytes contained in each file followed by the file name to standard output in that order. A word is defined to be a non-zero length string delimited by isspace(3C) characters.
If more than one file is specified, wc writes a total count for all of the named files with total written instead of the file name.
By default, wc writes all three counts. Options can specified so that only certain counts are written. The -c and -m options are mutually exclusive.
If no file is specified, or if the file is -, wc reads from standard input and no filename is written to standard output. The start of the file is defined as the current offset.
The following options are supported:
List the byte counts.
List the line counts.
List the longest line length.
List the character counts.
Suppress invalid multibyte character warnings.
List the word counts. Delimiting characters are Extended Unix Code (EUC) characters from any code set defined by isspace(3C).
Prints basic help information.
Prints built-in manual page in either plain text, HTML or nroff format.
Prints version information.
If no option is specified, the default is -lwc (counts lines, words, and bytes.)
The following operand is supported:
A path name of an input file. If no file operands are specified, the standard input is used.
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of wc when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 231 bytes).
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of wc: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE |
ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
---|---|
Availability |
SUNWcsu |
CSI |
Enabled |
Interface Stability |
Committed |
Standard |
See standards(5). |
cksum(1), ksh93(1), isspace(3C), iswalpha(3C), iswspace(3C), setlocale(3C), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)
Name | Synopsis | Description | Options | Operands | Usage | Environment Variables | Exit Status | Attributes | See Also