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  1. .TH WC 1
  2. .SH NAME
  3. wc \- word count
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B wc
  6. [
  7. .B -lwrbc
  8. ]
  9. [
  10. .I file ...
  11. ]
  12. .SH DESCRIPTION
  13. .I Wc
  14. counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid
  15. .SM UTF
  16. codes and bytes in the named
  17. .IR files ,
  18. or in the standard input if no file is named.
  19. A word is a maximal string of characters
  20. delimited by spaces, tabs or newlines.
  21. The count of runes includes invalid codes.
  22. .PP
  23. If the optional argument is present,
  24. just the specified counts (lines, words, runes, broken
  25. .SM UTF
  26. codes or bytes)
  27. are selected by the letters
  28. .BR l ,
  29. .BR w ,
  30. .BR r ,
  31. .BR b ,
  32. or
  33. .BR c .
  34. Otherwise, lines, words and bytes
  35. .RB ( -lwc )
  36. are reported.
  37. .SH SOURCE
  38. .B /sys/src/cmd/wc.c
  39. .SH BUGS
  40. .I Wc
  41. should have options to count suboptimal
  42. .SM UTF
  43. codes
  44. and bytes that cannot occur in any
  45. .SM UTF
  46. code.