Linux "wc" Command Line Options and Examples

print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters delimited by white space. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Usage:

wc [OPTION]... [FILE]... wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

Command Line Options:

-c

print the byte counts


                            wc -c ...

-m

print the character counts


                            wc -m ...

-l

print the newline counts


                            wc -l ...

--files0-from

read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names fromstandard input


                            wc --files0-from ...

-L

print the maximum display width


                            wc -L ...

-w

print the word counts


                            wc -w ...

--help

display this help and exit


                            wc --help ...

--version

output version information and exitAUTHORWritten by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.REPORTING BUGSGNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>COPYRIGHTCopyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent per‐mitted by law.


                            wc --version ...