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we don't support multibyte chars). Remove blatant lie from manpage: the order of the output is, and always has been, fixed. The order of the command line arguments makes no difference.
118 lines
3.8 KiB
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118 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1991 Regents of the University of California.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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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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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" from: @(#)wc.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 6/27/91
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.\" $Id: wc.1,v 1.3 1993/08/17 00:37:10 jtc Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd June 27, 1991
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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 wc
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.Op Fl c | Fl m
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.Op Fl lw
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.Op Ar file ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm wc
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utility reads one or more input text files, and, by
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default, writes the number of lines, words, and bytes
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contained in each input file to the standard output.
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If more than one input file is specified,
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a line of cumulative count(s) for all named files is output on a
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separate line
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following the last file count.
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.Nm Wc
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considers a word to be a maximal string of
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characters delimited by white space.
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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 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 wc
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only
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reports the
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information requested by that option. The
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default action is equivalent to all the
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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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a file name is not output. The resulting output is one
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line of the requested count(s) with the cumulative sum
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of all files read in via standard input.
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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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.Pp
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The counts for lines, words and bytes are integers separated
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by spaces.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm wc
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utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm wc
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function conforms to
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.St -p1003.2 .
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