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147 lines
4.3 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: wc.1,v 1.15 2010/02/18 13:14:51 wiz Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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.\" from: @(#)wc.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\"
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.Dd February 18, 2010
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.Dt WC 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm wc
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.Nd word, line, and byte count
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl c | Fl m
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.Op Fl Llw
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.Op Ar file ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility displays the number of lines, words, bytes and characters contained in each
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input
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.Ar file
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(or standard input, by default) to the standard output.
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A line is defined as a string of characters delimited by a \*[Lt]newline\*[Gt]
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character,
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and a word is defined as a string of characters delimited by white space
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characters.
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White space characters are the set of characters for which the
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.Xr iswspace 3
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function returns true.
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If more than one input file is specified, a line of cumulative counts
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for all the files is displayed on a separate line after the output for
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the last file.
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.Pp
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The following options are available:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl c
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The number of bytes in each input file
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is written to the standard output.
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.It Fl L
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The number of characters in the longest line of each input file
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is written to the standard output.
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.It Fl l
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The number of lines in each input file
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is written to the standard output.
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.It Fl m
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The number of characters in each input file
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is written to the standard output.
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.It Fl w
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The number of words in each input file
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is written to the standard output.
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.El
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.Pp
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When an option is specified,
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.Nm
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only
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reports the
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information requested by that option.
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The default action is equivalent to all the flags
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.Fl clw
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having been specified.
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.Pp
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The following operands are available:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Ar file
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A pathname of an input file.
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.El
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.Pp
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If no file names
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are specified, the standard input is used and
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no file name is displayed.
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.Pp
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By default, the standard output contains a line for each
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input file of the form:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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lines words bytes file_name
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.Ed
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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.Ex -std wc
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr iswspace 3
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.Sh COMPATIBILITY
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Historically, the
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.Nm
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utility was documented to define a word as a ``maximal string of
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characters delimited by
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.Aq space ,
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.Aq tab
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or
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.Aq newline
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characters''.
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The implementation, however, didn't handle non-printing characters
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correctly so that `` ^D^E '' counted as 6 spaces, while ``foo^D^Ebar''
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counted as 8 characters.
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.Bx 4
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systems after
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.Bx 4.3
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modified the implementation to be consistent
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with the documentation.
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This implementation defines a ``word'' in terms of the
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.Xr iswspace 3
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function, as required by
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.St -p1003.2 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl L
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option is a non-standard extension, compatible with the
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.Fl L
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option of the GNU and
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.Fx
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.Nm
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utilities.
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm
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utility conforms to
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.St -p1003.2-92 .
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