1WC(1) 386BSD Reference Manual WC(1) 2 3NNAAMMEE 4 wwcc - Word, line, and byte count. 5 6SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS 7 wwcc [--ccllww] [_f_i_l_e ...] 8 9DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN 10 The wwcc utility reads one or more input text files, and, by default, 11 writes the number of lines, words, and bytes contained in each input file 12 to the standard output. If more than one input file is specified, a line 13 of cumulative count(s) for all named files is output on a separate line 14 following the last file count. WWcc considers a word to be a maximal 15 string of characters delimited by white space. 16 17 The following options are available: 18 19 --cc The number of bytes in each input file is written to the standard 20 output. 21 22 --ll The number of lines in each input file is written to the standard 23 output. 24 25 --ww The number of words in each input file is written to the standard 26 output. 27 28 When an option is specified, wwcc only reports the information requested by 29 that option. The default action is equivalent to all the flags --ccllww 30 having been specified. 31 32 The following operands are available: 33 34 _f_i_l_e A pathname of an input file. 35 36 If no file names are specified, the standard input is used and a file 37 name is not output. The resulting output is one line of the requested 38 count(s) with the cumulative sum of all files read in via standard input. 39 40 By default, the standard output contains a line for each input file of 41 the form: 42 43 lines words bytes file_name 44 45 The counts for lines, words and bytes are integers separated by spaces. 46 The ordering of the display of the number of lines, words, and/or bytes 47 is the order in which the options were specified. 48 49 The wwcc utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 50 51SSTTAANNDDAARRDDSS 52 The wwcc function conforms to IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX''). 53 54BSD Experimental June 27, 1991 1 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67