blob: aa13147e67f1f1df20218f516fdcf1214f8130d9 [file] [log] [blame]
SYNOPSIS
xwc [-clw] <file>
or
xwc [-clw] (when reading from a pipe)
DESCRIPTION
xwc counts the number of bytes, whitespace-separated words, and new-
lines in a given file, or reading from a pipe. It prints one line
of counts, and if the file name was given as an argument, it prints
the filename following the counts. The counts are printed in the
order: lines, words, bytes.
By default, wc prints all three counts.
OPTIONS:
-c print character count
-l print line count
-w print word count
EXAMPLES