| 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 | |